The Imaginative Conservative (TIC) is an American online conservative journal, 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 Hillsdale College, and W. Winston Elliott III, President of the Free Enterprise Institute and a visiting professor in Liberal Arts at Houston Baptist University.W. Winston Elliott III, Wyoming Catholic College Magazine, Summer 2017, accessed 1 November 2021. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210225130723/https://wyomingcatholic.edu/person/w-winston-elliott-iii/
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 in particular.Francesco Giubilei, The History of European Conservative Thought (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2019), p. 244 In its first year it published an article by Steve Masty, a veteran of the Afghanistan conflict, which was deeply critical of American policy and intentions there.Lisa Schiffren, Perfidious Pakistan, Jewish Policy Center, Fall 2021
In 2015, TIC republished Russell Kirk's book Prospects for Conservatives,James Matthew Wilson, The Vision of the Soul (2017), p. 22 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 Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited.Jeffrey Manley, Waugh Novel Recommended in Gift List, Evelyn Waugh Society, December 7, 2015
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".
Contributors Notable contributors to The Imaginative Conservative have included Michael Bauman Stratford Caldecott Bruce Frohnen Ross M. Lence Benjamin MyersBenjamin Myers, Oklahoma Baptist University, accessed 28 October 2021 Joseph PearceJoseph Pearce, Author at The Imaginative Conservative, accessed 15 February 2024 Derek Turner Gleaves Whitney
See also Classical liberalism Conservatism in the United States List of United States magazines Traditionalist conservatism Traditionalist conservatism in the United States
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