
Vivaldi & Others: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi—the Italian Mozart
A consequence of Pergolesi’s posthumous fame: publishers sold works by other composers under Pergolesi’s commercially attractive name.

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.
Ancient customs will continue to make the European winter nights bright.
An isolationist stance would mean a diminished United States and a more dominant China.
Some conservatives may sniff and say that there is more to a country’s welfare than its growth rate. They are right. But without prosperity, life is to varying degrees unpleasant.
Christian meditation must be rehabilitated if the modern crisis of the Church is to be overcome.
The Church reacted against intellectual currents with a rationalistic Thomism in which the mystical dimension of reality was marginalized.
Mystical union with God is the axis around which the Christian life turns.
Profaning sacred spaces for a quick buck caused Our Lord Jesus Christ to unleash His righteous fury.
Our duty as Catholics is to pray for the Pope; but, to do so truly, we must not blind ourselves to his faults.
When the Japanese arrived in Hawaii, they had no problem identifying the local kami, or ‘spirits,’ of the nation. We explore the importance of national definition.
What is widely termed ‘trophy hunting’ is one of those very rare things in this fallen and troubled world: a near-unqualified good.
Strauss revitalized the study of political philosophy and questioned the premises of progressivist historicism.