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…
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Music in the Modern Age ~ The Imaginative Conservative
In his generous and beautifully written book, Robert Reilly leads us through the vast, largely…
Denying parental alienation is one of the greatest…
A series of articles we are publishing in TCW over the next two weeks, of which Melanie Gill’s is…
Mercy and Forgiveness in Modern Literature ~ The…
Portia’s famous speech in “The Merchant of Venice” is the best, and best-known, evocation of the…
A Redemptive, Modern Novel ~ The Imaginative…
Willa Cather’s “The Professor’s House” has been classified as a war story, which was not her…
Karl Marx, the founding father of modern hypocrisy
IN A 1982 letter to Michael Foot, Tony Blair wrote: ‘Reading Marx irreversibly altered my perception…
The modern bureaucrat, turning gold into excrement
FROM the 13th century onwards, as Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt observed in his 1860 book The…
The light that medieval Siena can shine on modern life
IT WAS a time of darkness, so the enlightened ones said, when people were thick, uncouth and…
