Category: COMMENTARY

The Market Has Reached the Womb

Surrogacy is often presented as an act of compassion. But once pregnancy becomes a service and parenthood a contract, the market has crossed a profound moral boundary.

The Death of the Irish Canon

Irish parents and grandparents should recognise that their children’s future is being shortchanged by the same deception that led France from 1789 to Waterloo.

The Noble Savage and the Woke Citizen

Rousseau sought to liberate humanity by restoring it to an original innocence. Woke culture pursues a remarkably similar objective through what it calls the deconstruction of inherited civilization.

Ann Widdecombe: A Trailblazing Convert

Miss Widdecombe was a politician very much in the spirit of St. Thomas More, always letting her faith drive her commitment to public service, staying true to her principles to the bitter end.

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates onstage during the ‘Alight Align Arise: Advancing the Movement for Repair National Conference’ at Thompson Buckhead on June 7, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia

Nation and Race and Ta-Nehisi Coates

In 2015, Coates became the moral beacon of Western liberals by hurling regurgitated antisemitic vitriol at all white Americans, specifically including Jews. Now the bill is coming due.

Last Hope of the Holy Land’s Christians

The birthplace of Christianity is in danger of losing its indigenous Christian communities. A recent visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank revealed both the severity of their plight and the practical ways in which they can still be helped.

The Smartphone and the Disorder of Modernity

The phone—and technology in general—must be restored to its place in the natural hierarchy: subordinate to higher ends and aspirations, rather than becoming the anchor around which modern life is ordered.

The Death of the Irish Canon

The Death of the Irish Canon

Irish parents and grandparents should recognise that their children’s future is being shortchanged by the same deception that led France from 1789 to Waterloo.

July 24, 2026
The Noble Savage and the Woke Citizen

The Noble Savage and the Woke Citizen

Rousseau sought to liberate humanity by restoring it to an original innocence. Woke culture pursues a remarkably similar objective through what it calls the deconstruction of inherited civilization.

The Feminization of the Icelandic State

The Feminization of the Icelandic State

How sex equality became imbalance in “the world’s most equal country.”

Ann Widdecombe: A Trailblazing Convert

Ann Widdecombe: A Trailblazing Convert

Miss Widdecombe was a politician very much in the spirit of St. Thomas More, always letting her faith drive her commitment to public service, staying true to her principles to the bitter end.

July 21, 2026
Nation and Race and Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nation and Race and Ta-Nehisi Coates

In 2015, Coates became the moral beacon of Western liberals by hurling regurgitated antisemitic vitriol at all white Americans, specifically including Jews. Now the bill is coming due.

July 20, 2026
Last Hope of the Holy Land’s Christians

Last Hope of the Holy Land’s Christians

The birthplace of Christianity is in danger of losing its indigenous Christian communities. A recent visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank revealed both the severity of their plight and the practical ways in which they can still be helped.

July 19, 2026
The Smartphone and the Disorder of Modernity

The Smartphone and the Disorder of Modernity

The phone—and technology in general—must be restored to its place in the natural hierarchy: subordinate to higher ends and aspirations, rather than becoming the anchor around which modern life is ordered.

July 18, 2026
From Gavroche to Hamza: France’s Crisis of Authority

From Gavroche to Hamza: France’s Crisis of Authority

Hamza is more than a viral delinquent—he embodies a France where shame has vanished and outrage has become fame.

July 17, 2026
Football World Cup: The Bastille of Diversity Fell on July 14th

Football World Cup: The Bastille of Diversity Fell on July 14th

The French team’s defeat is the defeat of a country that no longer knows how to trust its own children.

July 15, 2026
Too Catholic To Be French Officers

Too Catholic To Be French Officers

French military schools face a backlash after excluding Catholic pupils, exposing ideological bias and raising concerns over future army recruitment.

July 13, 2026
Neither Moscow’s Chapel nor Brussels’ Ledger

Neither Moscow’s Chapel nor Brussels’ Ledger

The Church should not become the government’s alibi. Its role is to preserve the distinction Moscow has violated and Brussels risks misunderstanding: the Church is not the state, and the faith is not the man who exploits it.

From Horizontal to Vertical Reading: Reclaiming Permanence in the Age of Mass Publishing

From Horizontal to Vertical Reading: Reclaiming Permanence in the Age of Mass Publishing

A Traditionalist vision argues that only works which have proven their archetypal power deserve physical form—while harnessing modern technology for what is merely useful.

July 11, 2026