s. eliot, kirk. it was in grand rapids michigan, and it's about an hour. host: we'll move forward in time now to the mid-20th century with a look at some of that era's influential conservative hinkers as illuminated by the scholarship of ben latford, bradley berbinger and lisa zefil. i use the word influential on purpose. he trajectory of post-war

s. eliot, kirk. it was in grand rapids michigan, and it's about an hour. host: we'll move forward in time now to the mid-20th century with a look at some of that era's influential conservative hinkers as illuminated by the scholarship of ben latford, bradley berbinger and lisa zefil. i use the word influential on purpose. he trajectory of post-war conservativeism was in many ways the cted and formed by panel discussion this morning. we believe this uniting theme on tions, hree presenta elements of common ground thinking will be apparent due to heir complex and deeply informed philosophies. en latford is a professor of english at ben valley state university, the past president of the t.s. eliot society and the editor of the t.s. eliot and christian tradition, ben will be discussing elliott's mid-20th ions to the century tradition. the chair at is hills vail college and is the cofounder of the imaginative conservative. his scholarship and imagination ave allowed him to publish diverse topics such as christopher dawson, james tolking's "middle earth." today,

s. probably, first and foremost, for his conservatism, this will blend in perfectly with what then said, with t.s. eliot. conservatism is almost always and everywhere either a political or pre-political. he did not believe that conservatism in politics mixed well. he opened up a number of his works in the early 1950's by suggesting that the worst thing a conservative could do would be to go into politics. we may change.re conservatives may change in the classroom, at the pulpit, maybe an bureaucracy, but they always did so in the arts. much more so than they would in actual politics. while politics with the necessary endeavor, he certainly didn't believe it should be the first thing we move into. even his own definition of conservatism, which she defined by a series of cannons, and i think that is important, he recognized conservatism could never be an etiology. ideology. it could never be political. it had to be pre-political or a political set of ideas. the very usage of cannon, even though he was not himself a believing christian at the point that he wrote this, he takes the idea of cannon from the c