Category: Essay

Keeping Christmas All the Year

Becoming Christmas is living in the knowledge, as St. John writes, that “as he is, so also are we in this world.”

Christmas at Court

In each imperial or royal court—as well as in that of the popes—Christmas and its Twelve Days were a major celebration.

Rehabilitating Fate

We all believe in myths, but we have some choice over which ones.

Theodicy and Belief in the Age Disenchantment

Theodicy and Belief in the Age Disenchantment

To recognize enchantment is to apprehend and acknowledge the workings of grace in the movements of history.

December 17, 2024
Blessed Karl, a Light for Our Times

Blessed Karl, a Light for Our Times

Blessed Karl was permeated with piety and imbued with that virtue.

December 14, 2024
Taking the <em>Nostos</em> Journey

Taking the <em>Nostos</em> Journey

Where is Home, ye wayfarer? A response to Audrey Unverferth

December 9, 2024
Helping One’s ‘Self’: The Great Controversy of Cutlery

Helping One’s ‘Self’: The Great Controversy of Cutlery

It is man’s nature to make art of nature.

December 8, 2024
Five Christmas Gift Ideas for <em>European Conservative</em> Readers

Five Christmas Gift Ideas for <em>European Conservative</em> Readers

Your gift giving can support worthy causes, spread beauty, and aid the festivity of this season.

December 7, 2024
Rehabilitating Fate

Rehabilitating Fate

We all believe in myths, but we have some choice over which ones.

December 7, 2024
The Pretence of Knowledge

The Pretence of Knowledge

The cooperation between politicians and scientists easily undermines science and promotes the pretence of knowledge.

December 7, 2024
American First in Budapest

American First in Budapest

Budapest is light and it is magic, but it is not my home.

December 5, 2024
The British Commonwealth’s Last Swashbuckler

The British Commonwealth’s Last Swashbuckler

We are here to make a film on the European legacy in this wilderness of South Africa. What we got was more than that—an adventure.

December 4, 2024
Is the Rising Right Right?

Is the Rising Right Right?

Being on the Right can easily become a matter of what to oppose, rather than what to uphold.

December 4, 2024
All That Is Right in the World

All That Is Right in the World

There are countless reasons not to fall into despair.

December 4, 2024
St. Junipero Serra: An Unjustly Controversial Figure

St. Junipero Serra: An Unjustly Controversial Figure

The churches Serra founded represent the last reach of the old order in the New World.

December 3, 2024