FROM THE FALL 2023 PRINT EDITION: Houellebecq is a dystopian visionary who has discovered that reality has overtaken him.

In stark contrast to the way Camus has been mis-portrayed by others, readers will encounter a heroic “committed opponent of conspiratorial thinking of all kinds.”

If we consider the origin myth of sumo, we may reflect on how the war between the celestial and earthly realms was tamed by the sport and turned into an arena structured by higher principles.

Liberalism leaves our cultural traditions and moral life at the mercy of whatever happens to result from the totality of individual human wills.

It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the observable obsessive impulse to destroy Pius’ reputation is driven more by ideology than by any objective historical inquiry. 

Poles have learned the hard way that there are no holidays from history.

CBDC is a paradox: it is a money based solely on trust that is structurally set up to destroy that trust. If people lose trust in the currency, the government would lose any control it had over the economy.

Against the endless liberation of the individual and the atomization of society, conservatives must uphold a concept of man as part of society with a shared identity and a shared ethos.

We have not been gradually losing our rights, freedoms, and political power. In truth, we never really had them to begin with, for they were never grounded in true political authority.

The combination of continuity and change has always been central to the genius of coronations, reassuring us that the past is being honoured, yet reaffirming the new order of things.

Liberalism inherited a Christian psychology but, having jettisoned the Rock of Ages, built its political theory upon the sand.

To the extent that America and its allies have an interest in an unthreatened NATO, a tranquil East Asia, and nuclear non-proliferation, they also have an interest in Ukrainian victory.