About the Imaginative Conservative

The Imaginative Conservative is an on-line journal for those who seek the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. We address culture, liberal learning, politics, political economy, literature, the arts and the American Republic in the tradition of Russell Kirk, T.S. Eliot, Edmund Burke, Irving Babbitt, Wilhelm Roepke, Robert Nisbet, Richard Weaver, M.E. Bradford, Eric Voegelin, Christopher Dawson, Paul Elmer More and other leaders of Imaginative Conservatism. We hope that The Imaginative Conservative answers T.S. Eliot’s call to “redeem the time, redeem the dream.” The Imaginative Conservative offers to our families, our communities, and the Republic, a conservatism of hope, grace, charity, gratitude and prayer. To learn more, read A Conservatism of Hope by W. Winston Elliott III, Ten Conservative Principles by Russell Kirk, Conservative Credo by Barbara Elliott, and Reflections on Imaginative Conservatism by Eva Brann.

Meet The Editors

W. Winston Elliott IIIFounder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief

Mr. Elliott is Visiting Professor of Liberal Arts in the Honors College of Houston Christian University. He earned his Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, Master of Arts in Theology from the University of St. Thomas (Houston), and Master of Business Administration, with Honors, from the University of Houston. His essays may be found here. He is also Senior Fellow of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and President of The Free Enterprise Institute.

Bradley J. BirzerCo-founder and Senior Contributor

Dr. Birzer is the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in History at Hillsdale College and Fellow of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. He is author of Russell Kirk: American Conservative, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth, Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson, American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll, and In Defense of Andrew Jackson. His essays may be found here.

Barbara J. ElliottSenior Contributor

Barbara J. Elliott was Scholar-in-Residence and Assistant Professor in the Honors College of Houston Christian University for fourteen years. She is the author of five books, including Street Saints: Renewing America’s Cities. She received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights from the President of the United States in 2001. As an American journalist based in Germany during the Cold War, she interviewed those who risked their freedom and their lives to resist Communism resulting in her book Candles Behind the Wall: Heroes of the Peaceful Revolution that Shattered Communism. Her essays may be found here.