It’s morning again in America. Trump has reclaimed the presidency, and a popular vote majority supercharges his mandate. But morning means it’s time to get to work. While we may now be unburdened by the disaster of a Harris administration, big changes are necessary. For the past sixteen years, we’ve heard the fantasies of the [...]
'Twas the week before finals and all through the school All the students were panicked and losing their cool. The deadlines flew by because no one would heed The dates in the syllabus no one would read. The children were buried nose-deep in their studies While visions of failure plagued them and their buddies. But [...]
The fault of polarization is not in our stars or even our social media constellation of follows and followers. It is, alas, in ourselves. Rather than give people advice about “civil discourse” or “ways to have productive conversations leading to truth"—which might well produce peace, some shared knowledge, or even humility—I want to help Imaginative [...]
Let’s play 20 Questions! Take the following simple diagnostic test to see if you are an Imaginative Conservative or something else. Or better yet, try it on your friends so you’ll know whether to pay for the next round of drinks or hail a taxi. Answers, scored at the bottom, are the author’s interpretations and [...]
In 1954, “Lucky Jim” was a new planet: When Kingsley Amis wrote it, English satirical fiction had been for a third of a century a decidedly mandarin and highbrow business. Unlike his predecessors, Amis depicts representatives of the lower orders and the previously inaccessible university world that is not so much a garden of philosophy [...]
(Tacoma, WA)—Bill Gleason is trying to figure out how to use the recent death of a sports star, to whom he previously paid little attention, to draw attention to himself on social media. "Of course, I'm simply going to start with an 'I'm devastated' post, so people know how much this is affecting ME," Mr. [...]
(WORLD) — Users across various social media platforms were shocked today to learn of the death of 89-year-old Manfred Krauss, the renowned German film director, whose credits include dozens of films, including 1958's The Leper, 1972's Peregrinations, and 1991's Oscar-nominated The Nursemaid's Lament. Krauss had been engaged in a well-publicized battle with lung cancer for [...]
Tupelo, Mississippi—In the wake of the controversy over the current Mississippi state flag, which includes the Confederate Battle Flag in its design, a group calling itself The Non-Binary Anti-Fascist People's Liberation Society for Climate Sanity has proposed a new, transparent flag to replace those state flags having what it deems to be "racist" designs. "This [...]
(USA) — Government officials in Washington DC and across the country are looking forward to ending the national lockdown soon and returning to normal times, when Americans are allowed to go about their business without government direction or interference. "This whole Coronavirus thing really forced us into a new role," said one high official at [...]
(Gary, IN)—Gregory W. O'Connell was stunned when he signed back into Facebook at 12:00am local time after a 40-day absence from social media to hear about the COVID-19 pandemic. "Just shocked, really. Good golly. Which of us who gave up social media for Lent could have known about this? I mean, it was really quiet [...]
(Providence, RI) — In the wake of Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo's issuance today of an order to have New Yorkers in her state arrested in order to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, an instant poll by the Pew Research Company shows that 79% of Americans had already supported the concept of locking up [...]
(USA) — In recent days, Americans across the country have become worried about people they have never seen before walking through the streets of their towns. "It's frightening, really," says Joe Harkins of Dothan, Alabama. "They are sometimes walking in pairs, sometimes in groups with what appear to be their young offspring, even by themselves [...]
(Washington, DC)— Today President Trump announced that in an effort to make America free of dependence on China for products, the United States would begin manufacturing its own brand of COVID-19. "It's high time that we lessen our dependence on China," the president declared. "And one of the steps I am taking today is to [...]
(Los Angeles, CA)—Singer/model/actress Naomi Campbell was spotted yesterday at Tom Bradley International Airport wearing a full hazmat suit as she boarded a flight. Long known as a germophobe, Campbell's extreme measures in the face of the Coronavirus outbreak reassured her fellow passengers. "Thank God she is doing this," said Helen Ledbetter, who was trying to [...]