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Roots of American Order: Jerusalem
Jerusalem by Gleaves Whitney To understand America, do not start with 1787. Or 1776. Or 1492. To understand America –or more precisely the most ancient roots of American order — go back to the second...
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America’s Fin de Siècle: End of a Century or a Civilization?
by Gleaves Whitney The Culture We Deserve by Jacques Barzun. Politically America may have won the Cold War, but culturally she has entered the fin de siècle. Despair is chic among youth. Recently a...
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American Founding — John Adams (Part 1)
John Adams by Gleaves Whitney Once Forgotten Founding Father and Philosopher President Makes a Comeback…. Why? Ten years ago, David McCullough told audiences something that still has the capacity to...
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American Founding — John Adams (Part 2)
John Adams by Gleaves Whitney John Adams has finally gotten the fame he craved, but it was a long time coming over a rough road. Already as a young man he tortured himself thinking about a future...
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The Founders and Happiness
Gleaves Whitney by Gleaves Whitney It was Thomas Jefferson and America’s founding generation that set culture on a new course when they declared that all human beings had the inalienable right to the...
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American Founding — John Adams (Part 3)
Abigail Adams birthplace: wife of John Adams. by Gleaves Whitney Why the Fame? Given John Adams’s liabilities — his prickly personality, several career setbacks, and the inconvenient fact that his...
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by Gleaves Whitney Books related to Benjamin Franklin may be found in The Imaginative Conservative Bookstore. Essays by Mr. Whitney may be found here. Gleaves Whitney is a Senior Contributor to...
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The Untold Story of the Constitutional Convention (video) – Gleaves Whitney
by Gleaves Whitney Deepen your understanding of the Constitutional Convention with this outstanding lecture… Books on the Constitutional Convention and the American Founding are available in The...
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James Madison: Take Alarm!
James Madison by Gleaves Whitney This election season, voters could do worse than remind themselves of the warning in James Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance”: “… take alarm at the first experiment...
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Decadence and Its Critics
Gleaves Whitney by Gleaves Whitney Through the ages the death of civilizations, no less than the death of human beings, has fascinated unnumbered observers of the human condition. For those who seek...
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The Swords of Imagination: Russell Kirk’s Battle With Modernity
Gleaves Whitney by Gleaves Whitney “Imagination rules the world,” Russell Kirk used to say.[1] He meant that imagination is a force that molds the clay of our sentiments and understanding.[2] It is not...
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Progressives & Conservatives: Is there Common Ground?
Gleaves Whitney by Gleaves Whitney Common Ground between Whom? A lot of people are skeptical about what the Hauenstein Center is trying to do. Seriously now: common ground between conservatives and...
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The Founding Fathers – Our First Neocons?
by Gleaves Whitney The imaginative conservative champions certain first principles in response to the fragmenting forces of modernity. Burke articulated a humane order to counter the “armed doctrines”...
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Russell Kirk and the Roots (and Shoots) of American Order
by Gleaves Whitney Russell Kirk and the Roots of American Order Russell Kirk best tells the story of the West in The Roots of American Order. Now in its fourth edition, Roots is “simply one of the...
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The Conservative Mind at 60
Speaking about The Conservative Mind on the book’s sixtieth anniversary, Gleaves Whitney explains why Russell Kirk chose Edmund Burke as his book’s central figure. Kirk believed that Burke understood...
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Stephen Tonsor: A Professor of Rigor and Variety
Professor Stephen Tonsor Back in the 1980s, when I told a friend that I was doing graduate work in history at Michigan, he looked surprised: “But you are conservative, and there aren’t any...
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The Swords of the Imagination: Russell Kirk’s Battle With Modernity
Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to fight the battle with modernity, as we journey with Gleaves Whitney in his exploration of Russell Kirk’s vision of...
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Our Age of Anxiety: Surviving Political Realignment
In 2016 Americans are feeling anxious. It’s not that we are experiencing crises—we are neither in total war nor economic depression. Yet 2016 has forced us to rethink all we thought we knew. A...
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The Education of a President
The lack of schooling in the formation of one of every four U.S. presidents underscores the paradox that even the most humble among them were often great champions of education in general and of the...
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Presidential Farewell Addresses: A Panorama of the Past
Presidential farewells constitute a great American conversation among the nation’s chief executives and open our view onto a large and detailed panorama of the past… Farewell, Mr. President Tonight,...
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