Moby Dick, Frankenstein, and the Anxiety of Influence
Great writers do not seek to escape influence—instead their creative genius shapes what they inherited.
Great writers do not seek to escape influence—instead their creative genius shapes what they inherited.
My irritation, for which this article is the self-medicated balm, lies not with particular values, but with the ‘having of values’ as such.
Reconciliation to the highest degree possible between Conservative Christians is essential.
“As long as it takes” is the West’s strategy towards the war in Ukraine. The problem is that Russia itself has now made this its own strategy.
Countries should take notice of Hungary’s family policies, before the demographic crisis becomes truly intractable.
In Kipling’s mind, the relativizing of different traditions within the harmony of the common worship of God could be satisfactorily manifested in the British Empire.
The West has enjoyed living standards previously unimaginable, but demographic challenges imperil its future.
Hungary’s break with communism remains an instructive case study for transitioning regimes worldwide.
The Adagio gives a totally distorted picture of Albinoni and his music.
Guinea-Bissau is politically unstable and plagued by drug traffickers. The president himself may be implicated in the violence.
Hermes, the traditional god of commerce, has now also become the god of globalism.
A consequence of Pergolesi’s posthumous fame: publishers sold works by other composers under Pergolesi’s commercially attractive name.
We must recover a society suffused with the wonder that nourishes the soul.
We are facing the possible tragedy of Europe’s demographic transformation into little more than the northernmost outpost of Islam—a tragedy which Pope Francis seems all too happy to embrace.
Lenin created one of the most brutal, destructive, and barbaric totalitarian regimes ever.
The founder of Western philosophy was persecuted by the oligarchy-sponsored anti-family egalitarian atheism of his day.
I headed to the city of David on Christmas morning. Its streets were even more somber than those of Jerusalem.
The New Right must be careful when playing up the populist rhetoric, lest it fall into Marxist dialectics.
If the state is the author of our rights and has the power to grant them to us, then they are not rights, but permissions that the state could revoke at any moment.
Yeats’ ghostly philosophy became a central theme in much of his most significant poetry. Many of his key works cannot be properly understood without knowledge of it.
When a civilization is on its deathbed, its people cry out one last time for myth and enchantment.
The tragic story behind this Christmas carol is a stark reminder of what happened in Ukraine.