The Imaginative Conservative

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On Being Beholden

One of the puzzles of human nature—call it evidence of original sin—is that when things are going well, the impulse to gratitude vanishes. To say

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(Written to be read aloud, if so be, Thanksgiving Day) I remember here by the fire, In the flickering reds and saffrons, They came in a ramshackle

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We know where, when, and how the famous song “America” (“My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”) came to be written. But what led Samuel Francis Smith,

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Why does the mystery of D.B. Cooper, who on November 24, 1971 committed the only unsolved airline hijacking in history, continue to fascinate us? On

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Always a liberal and never a leftist, historian Richard Hofstadter’s over-arching theme in explaining twentieth-century America was what he termed

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The Mayflower Compact is the first real assertion of the right to self-governance in the modern Western world and one of the most important in any

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A few weeks ago, I imagined which ten volumes I would select for my personal library were I to find myself locked up in a prison cell or perhaps

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Such are the power and relevance of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s words, that we would be doing ourselves a disservice if we did not engage with his

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What made Aaron Feuerstein famous was not success but his attitude in the face of catastrophe. When a fire destroyed the textile mill he owned, he

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Johann Sebastian Bach shows how mind and soul, spirit and body connect. In its complex richness and wholeness his music suggests the unity of faith

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Valkyrie is a 2008 thriller film directed and co-produced by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander. The film is set

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Andrew Nelson Lytle—novelist, dramatist, essayist, and professor of literature—extolled the order of the family, which by the 1930s he thought

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A balanced view does not dismiss the reality of the supernatural, nor does it indulge in curiosity and unhealthy fascination with the unseen world.

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The teaching of modern universities is that we inhabit a godless, indifferent, pointless material universe where consciousness itself is an

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Younger conservatives are now thinking and speaking in different ways about politics, religion, economics, and education because they are racing to