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We hope you will join us in The Imaginative Conservative community. The Imaginative Conservative is an on-line journal for those who seek the True, the Good and the Beautiful. We address culture, liberal learning, politics, political economy, literature, the arts and the American Republic.

If God really is our happiness, then the greatest kind of hope is not an expectation of earthly felicity, but rather a b...
10/05/2026

If God really is our happiness, then the greatest kind of hope is not an expectation of earthly felicity, but rather a bold trust in God’s love for us in spite of every challenge and suffering. (essay by Br. Gabriel O'Neill)

If God really is our happiness, then the greatest kind of hope is not an expectation of earthly felicity, but rather a bold trust in God’s love for us in spite of every challenge and suffering. “Nothing

I have to admit that I did not immediately warm to Karen Ullo’s novel. This was due to my own prejudice against both his...
10/05/2026

I have to admit that I did not immediately warm to Karen Ullo’s novel. This was due to my own prejudice against both historical fiction and women’s romance. I was mistaken. Ullo won me over, and I came to admire and root for her protagonist, a tough but tender Frenchwoman. (essay by Dwight Longenecker)

I have to admit that I did not immediately warm to Karen Ullo’s novel. This was due to my own prejudice against both historical fiction and women’s romance. I was mistaken. Ullo won me over, and I came to admire and root for her protagonist, a tough but tender Frenchwoman.

Two books about St. Francis: one by the protean English critic and one by an equally protean Greek. How, though, to trea...
10/05/2026

Two books about St. Francis: one by the protean English critic and one by an equally protean Greek. How, though, to treat their differences, especially since the books are unalike in length and fervency? (essay by Daniel J. Sundahl)

Two books about St. Francis: one by the protean English critic and one by an equally protean Greek. How, though, to treat their differences, especially since the books are unalike in length and fervency? St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton and

Today is St. Francis’ feast day! St. Francis runs like a red thread through the tapestry of Dawson’s various writings: h...
10/04/2026

Today is St. Francis’ feast day! St. Francis runs like a red thread through the tapestry of Dawson’s various writings: historical, political, and sociological. What do we learn from all this? (essay by Ben Reinhard)

St. Francis runs like a red thread through the tapestry of Dawson’s various writings: historical, political, and sociological. What do we learn from all this? As a medievalist and a professor at an enthusiastically Franciscan university, it is hard to avoid the nagging

Upon revisiting Chesterton’s "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" and reacquainting myself with his Napoleon, I realized that ...
10/03/2026

Upon revisiting Chesterton’s "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" and reacquainting myself with his Napoleon, I realized that I, like the protagonist, was lacking the necessary laughter and love of friends that I had enjoyed when I first read the novel. (essay by Joseph Pearce)

Upon revisiting Chesterton’s "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" and reacquainting myself with his Napoleon, I realized that I, like the protagonist, was lacking the necessary laughter and the love of friends that I had enjoyed when I first read the novel. Whenever I

Sometimes the Gospel calls us not so much to encounter the Lord but to take a look at ourselves, and before we know it, ...
10/02/2026

Sometimes the Gospel calls us not so much to encounter the Lord but to take a look at ourselves, and before we know it, the Scriptures hold up a mirror before our stained and deformed faces, and then Lord help us if we refuse in our hearts to perceive what our mind’s eye is given to see. (essay by Brian Sudlow)

Sometimes the Gospel calls us not so much to encounter the Lord but to take a look at ourselves, and before we know it, the Scriptures hold up a mirror before our stained and deformed faces, and then Lord help us if we refuse in our hearts to perceive what our

Today is the Feast of the Guardian Angels: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could see and meet our guardian angels? Wouldn...
10/02/2026

Today is the Feast of the Guardian Angels: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could see and meet our guardian angels? Wouldn’t it be a joy if they could show us and tell us what our world looks like from their perspective?

The truth is not simply that all that is good, true and beautiful comes from heaven but that all goodness, truth and beauty points to heaven. We see heaven in the light of the heavenly overspill in which we find ourselves.

Edmund Burke’s "gambit"—his contribution to the long conversation with posterity—has endured. Burke understood that true...
10/01/2026

Edmund Burke’s "gambit"—his contribution to the long conversation with posterity—has endured. Burke understood that true wisdom resides with the permanent things, and these he sought to commend to generations yet unborn. (essay by Kevin Belmonte)

Edmund Burke’s "gambit"—his contribution to the long conversation with posterity—has endured. Burke understood that true wisdom resides with the permanent things, and these he sought to commend to generations yet unborn. Gibbon admired his eloquence. Matthew Arnold likened his legacy to Shakes...

"The last exercise in the notebook remains unfinished, and the final six pages are blank, suggesting that it contains th...
09/30/2026

"The last exercise in the notebook remains unfinished, and the final six pages are blank, suggesting that it contains the last lessons Mozart ever taught."

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The first performance of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute” took place on September 30, 1791, some two months before the c...
09/30/2026

The first performance of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute” took place on September 30, 1791, some two months before the composer's death: "The Magic Flute" has been called Mozart’s “Masonic opera,” and so it is. Mozart was a serious Freemason. But the Masonic influence is of secondary importance to the power and precision of Mozart’s music, which, like all great music, is inexhaustible. Every act of listening to this work brings new discoveries. (essay by Peter Kalkavage)

"The Magic Flute" has been called Mozart’s “Masonic opera,” and so it is. Mozart was a serious Freemason. But the Masonic influence is of secondary importance to the power and precision of Mozart’s music, which, like all great music, is inexhaustible. Every act of listening to this work brin...

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