The Christmas Journey of Olaf Åsteson
The Norwegian tale of a young man who fell asleep on Christmas Eve and woke on Epiphany to recount the miraculous sights he had seen.
The Norwegian tale of a young man who fell asleep on Christmas Eve and woke on Epiphany to recount the miraculous sights he had seen.
When a culture loses the capacity for faith at all, be it religious or secular, and falls into a pit of relativism, it produces scientists all too willing to yield to the shrill demands of noisy, impassioned political activists.
On a single silent night when all was still and all was bright, Christian Germans and Christian Brits sang together and then climbed out of their trenches to greet each other—and celebrate the birth of Christ.
If anyone wishes to conquer the giants of their own vices, they must, like Don Quixote, take up the lance, the shield, draw down the visor, and mount Rocinante.
This oratorio, a familiar part of both the Christmas and Easter seasons, has a fascinating history.
Now is the perfect time to approach Dickens’ classic, with its perennial themes of repentance and generosity.
Fairy parties and flying reindeer are not things out of which eventually we must grow; they belong to the realm inhabited only by those who are mature enough to understand the world for what it is.
We must rediscover the principles that—in as many forms as there are Western nations—founded each of our countries and the West as a whole.
The environmentalist’s claim that man is nature’s enemy undermines any reason to steward it in the first place. To care for something, one must love it; one must feel that it belongs to them and them to it.
It is as if, in the boomer-con’s mind, liberalism is a ‘nice principle’ that ought to temper the ‘nasty but necessary principle’ of conservatism. Young-cons, however, don’t identify liberalism with niceness at all.
Rivera deliberately chose the moment of creation as a subject matter, recognizing its revolutionary potential.
The flickering torch illuminating the pathway towards the True, the Good, and the Beautiful must not expire on our watch.
We are a patriotic and freedom-loving people, and we cannot endure any more of this.
International cities are organised in a cabal to euthanise the antiquated nation-states of the West along with the international Westphalian system.
We must counter AI by framing education as pilgrimage, a transformative and embodied journey.
Nogueira believed the future would be shaped by great nations and that ethnically pluralistic polities—empires—were culturally and civilisationally superior to homogeneous ones.
Housman was a singular creature, a noble-minded nihilist of intense feeling.
Nogueira stands among that now lost class of great European statesmen.
Marked by historical events of such magnitude as the two world wars, Tolkien and other Christian intellectuals of his day grappled with profound questions about the fate of the world.
The Old and New Left share the same essential disdain for national, cultural, religious, and civilizational differences.
Social eating, with implicit rules for the sake of harmony, creates a tender window to the unique human person.
The Bible reminds us that when the storm comes—and inevitably it will—we can look into the waves and the darkness, or we can look to Christ.
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