Michael Anton’s “Dispatches From the Late…
Put simply and starkly, Michael Anton sees little reason for optimism about America. How is a…
Tag: Imaginative
A Picture that Paints a Thousand Words ~ The…
The beauty of art comes in many forms, shapes and sizes. It is rendered in metal, stone, sound,…
The Illusion of Madame Récamier ~ The Imaginative…
In his “Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears,” Hungarian philosopher of art…
The Magicians of the Modern Age ~ The Imaginative…
What made the evening memorable was not merely the magician’s dexterity but the strange pleasure of…
A Moody Birthday ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Awe reminds us that religion is itself a virtue, a part of justice, and it is especially owed to God…
Epic Similes & the Warm Joys of “The…
The warm joys of “The Odyssey” are not necessarily the “feel-good” kind. They’re sharp and…
Virtue, Courage, & Moderation in Plato’s…
Plato and Aristotle often connect justice with wholeness. And it is wholeness—the whole of virtue…
How to Pray in Mystical Contemplation III ~ The…
If you continue persevering in prayer, come what may, the subtle magnetic force of God’s love…
Do You Know What an Odyssey Is? ~ The Imaginative…
An odyssey is an adventurous and searching journey, or an intellectual or spiritual quest. It is the…
Memory & the Writing Life ~ The Imaginative…
Long before I knew what literary criticism was, I was a boy, living and growing up in southwestern…
