TIC: Bob Stacey on Kirk’s Moral Imagination
The “moral imagination” goes beyond our personal, individual experiences to help us fathom the depths of human dignity in light of God’s creation… Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to join Robert Stacey as he explores the moral imagination, as understood by Russell Kirk, and it’s role in rolling…
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The Devil’s Abyss: America’s Descent Into Progressivism — The Imaginative Conservative
As if to create the cruelest irony possible, as the terrorist ideologies arose, Americans surrendered their own republican inheritance, their own Augustinian and Puritan caution, and their traditionally humane morality to the new god: “Progress.” It was nothing less than a new faith… 1,270 more words
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Rush’s GRACE UNDER PRESSURE, Age 34 Today
My favorite Rush album has been, at least going back to April 1984, Grace Under Pressure. I realize that among Rush fans and among prog fans, this might serve as a contentious choice. My praise of GUP is not in any way meant to denigrate any other Rush albums. Frankly, I love them all. Rush […]
Progressive American Imperialism: A Malicious Addiction — The Imaginative Conservative
Our heritage of foreign intervention is a new one, an innovation introduced by the progressives. To imagine a clean and humane progressivism is, simply, a fool’s errand. 1,532 more words
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The Architecture of Servitude and Boredom — TIC
Do we descend steadily, and now somewhat speedily, toward a colossal architecture of unparalleled dreariness, and a colossal state of unparalleled uniformity? Will all of us labor under a profound depression of spirits because of the boring and servile architecture about us? 4,809 more words
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The Forthcoming Tolkien Book?
(C) John Howe I deliberately withheld writing about this news at any point yesterday, as the annual pranking event of April Fool’s took over the internet. In order to ensure this was no typical joke, the rumoured whispers from distant shores seem to have declared the potential release of a “Tolkien Book” in August […]
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The Garden Redeemed: A Quiet Saturday
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Unbought Grace — The Imaginative Conservative
The qualities that I would love most of all to see in all our students could not be better described than by Edmund Burke’s account of the chivalric demeanor: “that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom”… 871 more…
Death on a Friday Afternoon (TIC)
Not only did Jesus manifest Himself as the Logos so long desired in the pagan West on that Friday afternoon, but He also manifested Himself as the Christ, the true and eternal king. 1,634 more words
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I’ve Not Been This Taken With YES in Almost 2 Decades
Review of Yes, FLY FROM HERE: RETURN TRIP (Pledgemusic, 2018). Tracks: Fly From Here, Parts 0-V; The Man You Always Wanted Me to Be; Life on a Film Set; Hour of Need; Solitaire; Don’t Take No For an Answer; and Into the Storm. Standout tracks: Madman at the Screen; Into the Storm. Sailor, sailor beware. […]
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Barbara Elliott at Her Writing Best: John with Jesus (TIC)
I went with Peter to make the arrangements for the Passover supper. When we arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus had told us to look for a man carrying a pitcher of water. 1,771 more words
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Podcast with John Miller–THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
One of many JJM projects to save the world!
My great friend and ally, John J. Miller of NR fame, and I had a blast talking all things, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. 30 minutes of us bloviating with enthusiasm, if not wisdom!
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