
The Mistaken Cult of Free Thinking
If it is ontologically impossible for God Himself to be an ‘independent thinker,’ I struggle to see how Bill Maher manages it.

If it is ontologically impossible for God Himself to be an ‘independent thinker,’ I struggle to see how Bill Maher manages it.

Berio believed that sounds are inextricably linked to a certain historical-traditional, even archetypal, meaning.

When secession serves the needs of political homogeneity and self-determination, it might actually serve the common good.

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

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

Sunday’s long read: Charles Coulombe on America, Europe, history, and monarchism.

In West Yorkshire, the Brontë family’s literary legacy endures in places that evoke the triumph and the tragedy of their lives.

Dallapiccola composed Il prigioniero, set against the backdrop of the Dutch Revolt, to protest Mussolini’s regime.

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

We do not need art critics and experts to educate us. Beauty speaks for itself.
No matter how bad a workday I may have had, those precious seconds when I turn the key in the front door and hear the jubilant shouts of “Daddy!” make it all worthwhile.
The great Tuscan poet can save our lives.
Tyranny pretends to respond to higher, more advanced, imperatives, but they are, at root, an expression of an age-old libido dominandi.
The protagonist of Creangă’s story confronts armies of demons with humor and common sense, exposing the ridiculous mediocrity of evil.
Western decadence is today revealed by an out-of-touch elite class, more interested in microaggressions than in civilizational decline.
Humanity evolved beyond the violence of the pagan world because of Hebraic ethics, universalized by the Abrahamic faiths.
Conservatives are right to press ahead with the project of articulating the mythic truth of a common culture.
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.
Admiral de Ruyter’s memory matters, and a corrective to the slanderous lies of leftists is in order.
Until the conversation orbits the sacrality of what Roger Scruton called ‘homecoming,’ we will be stuck with a politics of empty promises.
Modernism, in art as in politics, can be integrated into a traditional understanding of man and society’s spiritual dimension.
When a banana duct-taped to a wall is juxtaposed against a Monet, the absurdity of this cultural revolution is starkly apparent.