Category: Essay

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.

The Aragorn Option

Aragorn, for so long the wandering heir, wins at last and begins the restoration of a world wrecked by evil.

Dry January: A Secular Lent

Dry January joins the cohort of practices recommended by the progressive virtue leagues working relentlessly to establish a safe, green world as sad as a rainy day.

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
The Climate Cult and Its Mythic Origins

The Climate Cult and Its Mythic Origins

The mythic framing of the climate revolution finds its heart deep in the symbolism of a conflict between man and nature under Heaven.

November 15, 2023
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: A Christian of Convenience?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: A Christian of Convenience?

What critics miss about the Muslim-turned-atheist’s dramatic conversion

November 13, 2023
Diego Rivera and the Politicization of Creation

Diego Rivera and the Politicization of Creation

Rivera deliberately chose the moment of creation as a subject matter, recognizing its revolutionary potential.

On Advancing a Conservative Aesthetics

On Advancing a Conservative Aesthetics

The flickering torch illuminating the pathway towards the True, the Good, and the Beautiful must not expire on our watch.

November 11, 2023
The UK is Ripe for Populism—But Who Will Come to the Fore?

The UK is Ripe for Populism—But Who Will Come to the Fore?

We are a patriotic and freedom-loving people, and we cannot endure any more of this.

November 8, 2023
Avoid People Who Have No Hobbies

Avoid People Who Have No Hobbies

“The part that we live is really small. All the rest of existence is not life but merely time.” People with no hobbies read Seneca’s words as a kind of profit and loss spreadsheet.

November 7, 2023
Cosmopolistan

Cosmopolistan

International cities are organised in a cabal to euthanise the antiquated nation-states of the West along with the international Westphalian system.

November 5, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Christian Culture

Artificial Intelligence and Christian Culture

We must counter AI by framing education as pilgrimage, a transformative and embodied journey.

November 4, 2023
Alberto Franco Nogueira: A Century of Lessons, Part Two

Alberto Franco Nogueira: A Century of Lessons, Part Two

Nogueira believed the future would be shaped by great nations and that ethnically pluralistic polities—empires—were culturally and civilisationally superior to homogeneous ones.

November 4, 2023
A.E. Housman, Poet and Pessimist

A.E. Housman, Poet and Pessimist

Housman was a singular creature, a noble-minded nihilist of intense feeling.

November 3, 2023