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Beautiful Brilliance: Barbara Elliott on Mike Church
by Bradley J. Birzer The ever elegant and thoughtful Barbara Elliott (yes, OUR Barbara) was on the Mike Church show today. Congrats to Barbara for sharing her always inspiring insights on the nature...
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Catholic Imagination and Contemporary Culture
Barbara Elliott’s Presentation on Catholic Imagination and Contemporary Culture to the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. Enjoy. Books mentioned in this essay may be found in The Imaginative...
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Jousting, D-Day, Reagan and the New Barbarians
by Barbara J. Elliott This morning I had one of those startling moments when time folds back on itself, as I remembered a convergence of events that all took place in this sunny week of June, albeit in...
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How do we Vote for the People who “Really Care”?
Barbara J. Elliott by Barbara J. Elliott As Americans enter the voting booth today, we will be making a momentous decision for our nation. Whose vision will we embrace? Three groups of people are...
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Anna Karenina: Aristocratic Life is All a Stage
by Barbara J. Elliott Anna Karenina is a lush, beautiful, stylized film about succumbing to sexual flame and the complicated relationships of infidelity that tear a beautiful woman apart. The themes of...
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Imaginative Gifts for the Entire Family
Imaginative conservatives read, pray, honor the past, build family memories, and do everything with wit, style and elegance. The gifts below have been lovingly picked for the entire family with that...
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Les Misérables: A Rousing Tale for Slumbering Souls
by Barbara J. Elliott If you are allergic to emotion, this may not be the film for you. But if your heart yearns for good to triumph over evil, for beauty to emerge from squalor, and for the...
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Confronting an Evil Empire
Ronald Reagan by Barbara J. Elliott From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitols of the ancient...
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Conservative Credo
Barbara J. Elliott by Barbara J. Elliott Conservatism seeks the Truth that has emerged over time, drawing from the deep wellsprings of human experience, and builds anew on foundations that have...
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The Divine Conspiracy of Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard by Barbara J. Elliott One of the great oaks among us is fallen. Dallas Willard, who died May 8, was a professor of philosophy, a teacher par excellence, and a great soul, capable of...
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Damsels in Distress: a Cultural Anti-Depressant
by Barbara J. Elliott If you’re feeling depressed about the culture around you, Dr. Elliott has a prescription for you: one full dose of Whit Stillman’s most recent film, Damsels in Distress, followed...
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Celestial Courtroom: America at the Judgment of the Nations
by Barbara J. Elliott [Classified Top Secret, Embargo on Distribution] Through unnamed sources involved in the proceedings, these notes were smuggled out of the Celestial Courtroom, where the ongoing...
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Germans Seize Homeschoolers in Outrageous Raid
Dirk and Petra Wunderlich and their four children, in 2012 with Mike Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Association by Barbara J. Elliott At 8 a.m. on August 29, as Dirk and Petra Wunderlich began...
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Want Affordable Health Care? Try These Tantalizing Options
After changing health insurance providers and having difficulty getting prescriptions filled, I was getting testy. Very testy. Then I read that the new national insurance program would be released on...
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D-Day and a Decadent French Wedding
Still slightly hung over from too much French champagne and cognac at the wedding of a French Count, I was driving from France to Germany on June 6, 1994, the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day. The...
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What is Happiness? Pharrell Williams vs Aristotle
The song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams has gone viral, topping the charts in the United States and twenty-two other countries. It was nominated as Best Original Song for the Academy Awards on March 2,...
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Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall?
The Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain seemed to be permanent fixtures of the political landscape of Europe after 1961. But to everyone’s surprise, the Berlin Wall opened on November 9, 1989. This...
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Hip-Hop Hamilton
The musical Hamilton is star-spangled patriotic and worthy of attention, even though hip-hop may not be the favorite musical genre of most Imaginative Conservatives. Why? Intelligence finds the answer...
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When Mother Teresa Came to Washington
It was utterly ludicrous, stepping out of a chauffeured White House limousine to go hear Mother Teresa. Even then I recognized that, as a twenty-something working at the locus of political power. Her...
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