Staff and Fellows

W. Winston Elliott III is the Founder and Publisher of The Imaginative Conservative, an online journal for those who seek the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. It addresses culture, liberal learning, politics, literature, and the arts. Additionally, he is President of the Free Enterprise Institute, which is dedicated to promoting the ideals of a free and virtuous society. The Institute teaches the principles of constitutional government, the Western intellectual tradition of the American founding, and an enduring moral order. He earned his Master of Arts in Liberal Arts (Western Classics) from St. John’s College and was awarded a Master of Business Administration, with Honors, from the University of Houston. He is Visiting Professor of Liberal Arts in the Honors College of Houston Baptist University. 

Nash is also a Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal. His acclaimed book The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 is not only the definitive history of postwar conservatism but also a landmark work of intellectual history. Although not mentioning Ford specifically, he helps the reader understand the intellectual background of Ford’s principled pragmatism and own brand of conservatism. Likewise, his writings on Herbert Hoover have helped reclaim the legacy of an oft-misunderstood President, one whose own career mirrored in some ways the challenges and successes of President Ford’s.