1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (113+ words) Rest in peace, Michael Tilson Thomas. From those of us in the San Francisco Bay Area (and well beyond) who so enjoyed your years as music director, conductor, and the glorious face of the San Francisco Symphony, know that you…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (172+ words) Though the country enjoyed a few years of patriotic revival after the glorious success of Andrew Jackson's militia at the Battle of New Orleans, 1819 undid almost all successes, with Missouri applying for admission as a slave state and the United…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1024+ words) The Imaginative Conservative I've Been to Kennett: A Tribute to Alva & Bertie Lee Berry Our American forefathers and mothers arrived in a land with nothing and made it into the wealthiest, most powerful nation on the planet. I know how…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (308+ words) Returning to Dr. Murray's metaphor about pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, let's assemble the pieces of the puzzle which have been discovered but of which Dr. Munro does not seem to be aware. The Blackfriars Gatehouse had been a hub…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (260+ words) Jack himself refers to the reactions of the muscle in a frog's leg when the stimulus of an electric current is applied: human responses are just that simple, and just that far removed from the wrestling of conscience and the…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (135+ words) Let's quickly return to Woodrow Wilson and his New Freedom of 1913. He offers the very best definition and analysis of progressivism possible and is worth quoting at some length. All that progressives ask or desire is permission'in an era when…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (1027+ words) Kant shows that the one necessary, non-contingent existence is God, a being that is one, simple, unchangeable, eternal, and a spirit. There is, then, necessarily a God, a being comprehending not all, but all the highest positive reality. I hope…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (1083+ words) Beware the Inner Ring'The Imaginative Conservative Beware the Inner Ring Near the end of his essay "The Inner Ring," C. S. Lewis says, "To a young person, just entering on adult life, the world seems full of "insides," full of delightful intimacies…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (385+ words) Eric Forsbergh writes with insight, compassion, and humor, as he describes in well-honed vignettes the human condition, anchored in our DNA: love, identity, sex, families, babies, war, and death, as we go about our multifaceted lives, making music, solving crimes,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (826+ words) The time spent in silence and contemplation fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world, and, above all, the sublime things in Creation. Indeed, religion is born from this leisure. But in an AI world, such activities are…...