Truthfulness Is Not Optional — The Imaginative Conservative (Reblog)

In a time when crime and inflation are rising together, when independent nations are threatened by massive powers eager to consume them, and when dispassionate public discourse seems impossible, it’s bracing to remember the fairness and generosity that make justice and good judgment possible. 1,143 more words

Truthfulness Is Not Optional — The Imaginative Conservative

Haiku: Covenant

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Heaven’s vibrant arc
always opposing the sun
Endless covenant

Copyright Francis 2022

Haiku: Below Ground

Stone below the ground

Grandeur obscures hidden pasts

Where we have come from

Copyright Francis 2022

The Mantle of Eumaios (Reblog)

Why is it, we might ask, that the “Odyssey” ultimately feels so consonant with the Old Testament in its depiction of the punishments of sensuality …

The Mantle of Eumaios

Andrew Lytle & the Politics of Agrarianism — The Imaginative Conservative (Reblog)

Automated and impersonal, American society, Andrew Lytle feared, was coming to be peopled by the rootless masses ensnared in dreary, routine, unimaginative, and irrelevant occupations—a society of interchangeable parts and interchangeable men. 6,884 more words

Andrew Lytle & the Politics of Agrarianism — The Imaginative Conservative