| Editor | Bradley J. Birzer Stephen M. Klugewicz[1] |
|---|---|
| Categories | Editorial journal |
| Publisher | W. Winston Elliott III[1] |
| Founder | Bradley J. Birzer[2] |
| First issue | June 2010 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Houston,Texas, U.S. |
| Language | English |
| Website | theimaginativeconservative |
The Imaginative Conservative (TIC) is an American onlineconservative journal, founded in 2010.
The co-founders ofTIC were Bradley J. Birzer, the holder of the Russell Amos Kirk chair in American Studies atHillsdale College, and W. Winston Elliott III, President of the Free Enterprise Institute and a visiting professor in Liberal Arts atHouston Baptist University.[3]
Conceived early in 2010 and launched in June of that year,TIC was initially dedicated to promoting conservatism in general and the ideas ofRussell Kirk in particular.[2] In its first year it published an article by Steve Masty, a veteran of theAfghanistan conflict, which was deeply critical of American policy and intentions there.[4]
In 2015,TIC republished Russell Kirk's bookProspects for Conservatives,[5] with an introduction by Bradley J. Birzer which called the work a "Christian humanistic manifesto".[2] Also in 2015, the journal published a list of suggested gifts for conservatives, which included badger-hair shaving brushes andEvelyn Waugh's novelBrideshead Revisited.[6]
As of 2021, the journal said of itself that its purpose was to address culture, liberal learning, politics, political economy, literature, the arts, and the American Republic, in the tradition of Kirk,Irving Babbitt,M. E. Bradford,Edmund Burke,Willa Cather,Christopher Dawson,T. S. Eliot,Paul Elmer More,Robert Nisbet,Wilhelm Roepke,Eric Voegelin,Richard M. Weaver, and other leaders of Imaginative Conservatism.[1]
Notable contributors toThe Imaginative Conservative have included
