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  • What Is Capitalism and Where Did It Start?

    What Is Capitalism and Where Did It Start?0

    In a recent essay for The Imaginative Conservative, I claimed that capitalism had its origins in England. I had expected such a sweeping statement to raise the ire or the eyebrows of some readers and was not surprised that it elicited a puzzled response. “When,” one correspondent inquired of me, “did capitalism begin in England? Did it not start

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  • Why Do Progressives Hate the West So Much?

    Why Do Progressives Hate the West So Much?0

    President Trump was right to defend the West, a civilization which goes back to the Homeric epic and the Hebrew prophets, and having been baptized by Christ, is “not the property of any particular race but the universal aspiration of humankind”… In an essay for The Atlantic earlier this month, Peter Beinart, an associate professor of journalism

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  • The Importance of Chesterton, Tolkien and Lewis

    The Importance of Chesterton, Tolkien and Lewis0

    [Editor’s Note: Joseph Pearce recently granted the following interview to The Whetstone, a student newspaper of Montreal College, North Carolina.] What do you see as your role, your calling, and how does it correlate with your work as a scholar? I am trying to serve as a cultural catalyst, evangelizing the wider culture with the beauty of

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  • Solzhenitsyn on Russia and the West

    Solzhenitsyn on Russia and the West0

    In 1998 I had the inestimable pleasure and honour of interviewing Alexander Solzhenitsyn at his home outside Moscow. As I traveled to Russia I had no idea why he should have granted me an exclusive interview when he had shunned the advances of Western writers much more accomplished and better known. He had a reputation

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