Thomas Jefferson

In Honor of Mr. Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Here are recommended essays regarding Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) on The Imaginative Conservative: Looking for Mr. Jefferson by Clyde WilsonThomas Jefferson’s Birthday by Clyde WilsonThe Jeffersonian Conservative Tradition by Clyde WilsonThomas Jefferson, Conservative by Clyde WilsonFrom Union to Empire by W. Winston Elliott IIIWas Thomas Jefferson a Philosopher? by Eva BrannThe Declaration of Independence: Translucent Poetry […]

The Ghosting of Thomas Jefferson ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The sanitizing of Thomas Jefferson has played a role in the crippling of public discourse. Nowadays, anyone who would discuss something so anodyne as political decentralization or states’ rights has to walk on eggshells, lest he find himself attacked and stigmatized by enforcers of political orthodoxy. We should question an American political establishment that obfuscates […]