Category: Essay

The Abiding Appeal of Self-Immolation

Those who engage in self-immolation today are raging against a world grown immune to the human quest for meaning and self-sacrifice.

Algorithms and Egregores

The data-driven economy of Big Tech is a demon UFO cloud that does not rain but abducts.

Looking at the World with Marco Polo

Marco Polo’s memoir portrays an encounter between radically different civilizations that can be a model for us today.

Globalism’s New Mythology

“What kind of god?” asked Tucker Carlson as Joe Rogan described the possible replacement of humans by AI.

Ivan Turbinca, The Joyful Exorcist

Ivan Turbinca, The Joyful Exorcist

The protagonist of Creangă’s story confronts armies of demons with humor and common sense, exposing the ridiculous mediocrity of evil.

May 26, 2024
The Decadence of the West

The Decadence of the West

Western decadence is today revealed by an out-of-touch elite class, more interested in microaggressions than in civilizational decline.

Civilization is from the Jews

Civilization is from the Jews

Humanity evolved beyond the violence of the pagan world because of Hebraic ethics, universalized by the Abrahamic faiths.

May 25, 2024
Defending a National Culture

Defending a National Culture

Conservatives are right to press ahead with the project of articulating the mythic truth of a common culture.

May 24, 2024
Record Attendance at the Chartres Pilgrimage: What’s Next?

Record Attendance at the Chartres Pilgrimage: What’s Next?

The pilgrimage has gone from being of interest only to a handful of traditionalist Catholic community media to arousing the curiosity of major national outlets.

The Dutch Republic’s Greatest Christian Hero

The Dutch Republic’s Greatest Christian Hero

Admiral de Ruyter’s memory matters, and a corrective to the slanderous lies of leftists is in order. 

Against a National Loyalty Divorced from the Sacred

Against a National Loyalty Divorced from the Sacred

Until the conversation orbits the sacrality of what Roger Scruton called ‘homecoming,’ we will be stuck with a politics of empty promises.

May 21, 2024
Picasso, Guernica, and the Resurrected Christ

Picasso, Guernica, and the Resurrected Christ

Modernism, in art as in politics, can be integrated into a traditional understanding of man and society’s spiritual dimension.

The War Against Art History: Woke Philistines Seek To Destroy Culture

The War Against Art History: Woke Philistines Seek To Destroy Culture

When a banana duct-taped to a wall is juxtaposed against a Monet, the absurdity of this cultural revolution is starkly apparent.

May 20, 2024
Searching for the “Other World”

Searching for the “Other World”

If it exists, where is the unseen world located?

May 19, 2024
Pentecost and Burning Down the City of Man

Pentecost and Burning Down the City of Man

Pentecost and the blessing of the nations in their particularity is a judgement against the false unity of tyrants.

<strong>Vivaldi & Others</strong>: Pietro Mascagni—Crowned Before He Became King

<strong>Vivaldi & Others</strong>: Pietro Mascagni—Crowned Before He Became King

In less than 80 minutes, Cavalleria rusticana alone establishes Mascagni as a composer worth our attention.