''The Imaginative Conservative'' (''TIC'') is an online

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journal published in the United States, founded in 2010.

History

The co-founders of ''TIC'' were Bradley J. Birzer, the holder of the Russell Amos Kirk chair in American Studies at

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, and W. Winston Elliott III, President of the Free Enterprise Institute and a Visiting Professor in Liberal Arts at

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. Conceived early in 2010 and launched in June of that year, ''TIC'' was initially dedicated to promoting conservatism in general and the ideas of

Russell Kirk Russell Amos Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism. His 1953 book ''The Conservative ...

in particular. Francesco Giubilei, ''The History of European Conservative Thought'' (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2019)
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, which was deeply critical of American policy and intentions there. In 2015, ''TIC'' republished Russell Kirk's book ''Prospects for Conservatives'', with an introduction by Bradley J. Birzer which called the work a "Christian humanistic manifesto". Also in 2015, the journal published a list of suggested gifts for conservatives, which included badger-hair shaving brushes and

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''. 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,

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, M. E. Bradford,

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, T. S. Eliot,

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, Wilhelm Roepke,

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, and other leaders of Imaginative Conservatism.

Contributors

Notable contributors to ''The Imaginative Conservative'' have included *

Michael D. Aeschliman Michael D. Aeschliman (born 21 February 1948) is a U.S.–Swiss educator, literary critic and scholar, Professor Emeritus at Boston University, Professor of Anglophone Culture at the ''Università della Svizzera italiana'' (University of Italian ...

Michael Bauman Michael E. Bauman (February 14, 1950 – October 2, 2019) was a Professor of Theology and Culture and Director of Christian Studies at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. He was also a member of the faculty of Summit Ministries, in Manitou ...

Stratford Caldecott Stratford Caldecott (26 November 1953 - 17 July 2014) was a Catholic author, editor, publisher, and blogger. His work spanned subjects as diverse as literature, education, theology, apologetics, economics, environmental stewardship, sacred geome ...

* Bruce Frohnen * Lowell S. Gustafson * Ross M. Lence *

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Benjamin Myers

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, accessed 28 October 2021 *

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Gleaves Whitney Gleaves Whitney has been the executive director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation since September 2020. Prior to that, he was the director of Grand Valley State University's Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies beginning in July 2 ...

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at ''The Imaginative Conservative'' *

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