Category: Essay

Bordering on Insanity

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’s Legacy

Lenin created one of the most brutal, destructive, and barbaric totalitarian regimes ever.

The ‘Ghost-Written’ Verse of W.B. Yeats

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.

Remembrance and Resistance

Remembrance and Resistance

Ancient customs will continue to make the European winter nights bright.

December 1, 2023
U.S. Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World

U.S. Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World

An isolationist stance would mean a diminished United States and a more dominant China.

November 30, 2023
Margaret Thatcher’s Character and Legacy

Margaret Thatcher’s Character and Legacy

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.

November 28, 2023
The Crisis of the Church and the Mystagogical Option, Part III: The Mystical Life and Christian Meditation

The Crisis of the Church and the Mystagogical Option, Part III: The Mystical Life and Christian Meditation

Christian meditation must be rehabilitated if the modern crisis of the Church is to be overcome.

November 28, 2023
The Crisis of the Church and the Mystagogical Option, Part II: Warning and Diagnosis

The Crisis of the Church and the Mystagogical Option, Part II: Warning and Diagnosis

The Church reacted against intellectual currents with a rationalistic Thomism in which the mystical dimension of reality was marginalized.

November 27, 2023
The Crisis of the Church and the Mystagogical Option, Part I: The Mystic Principle

The Crisis of the Church and the Mystagogical Option, Part I: The Mystic Principle

Mystical union with God is the axis around which the Christian life turns.

November 26, 2023
Canterbury Fails: Why We Must Oppose the Rave in the Nave

Canterbury Fails: Why We Must Oppose the Rave in the Nave

Profaning sacred spaces for a quick buck caused Our Lord Jesus Christ to unleash His righteous fury.

November 25, 2023
Inside Andrew Tate’s War Room

Inside Andrew Tate’s War Room

Andrew Tate is not an ally in the culture wars.

Against Papolatry, Liberal and Illiberal

Against Papolatry, Liberal and Illiberal

Our duty as Catholics is to pray for the Pope; but, to do so truly, we must not blind ourselves to his faults.

November 22, 2023
American Shinto: Or How Conservatives Offend the Dead

American Shinto: Or How Conservatives Offend the Dead

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.

November 21, 2023
Trophy Hunting and the End of Politics

Trophy Hunting and the End of Politics

What is widely termed ‘trophy hunting’ is one of those very rare things in this fallen and troubled world: a near-unqualified good.

November 19, 2023
Philosophy as Knowledge of the Whole: Remembering Leo Strauss

Philosophy as Knowledge of the Whole: Remembering Leo Strauss

Strauss revitalized the study of political philosophy and questioned the premises of progressivist historicism.

November 16, 2023