Percival’s Sister and Predatory Feminism
Percival’s sister’s bleeding out is instructive. It stands for the scattering of energies released from their proper, ordered course within the organism, in order that another may feed on them.
Percival’s sister’s bleeding out is instructive. It stands for the scattering of energies released from their proper, ordered course within the organism, in order that another may feed on them.
Uncertainty faces us more regularly than certainty. What are we to make of this?
As in most of the great classics, the essential nature of gratitude in difficult circumstances is constantly emphasized.
The fact that demonstrating pride in one’s country is considered ‘fascist’ speaks to the utter insanity of the current ethos.
When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. Ireland is now paralyzed by an involuntary expulsion of ‘woke’ air that managed to travel 4,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.
This is what it means to have a leader who believes that the faith that was inseparable from the founding of the nation is vital to its survival.
If we each operate as insulated, atomic individuals, with our own private concepts of human flourishing, then the great work of civilisation-building is impossible.
Steffani’s Stabat mater is the resounding counterpart to Bernini’s overwhelming “L’Estasi di Santa Teresa d’Avila,” even though that sculpture was created almost 80 years earlier.
The disappearance of the fear of hell, Arendt tells us, leads directly to the institutionalization of immorality, and the transformation of the deviant will of a Hitler or a Stalin into state policy.
If the ‘M’ word is uttered, the malefactor’s hearers often reply: “So, you want to be a lord or something? If we had a monarchy again, you’d be nothing!” My favourite response: “What makes you think I’m something now? Do you think the chancellor cares if you or I live or die?”
“We expected to find tiny, young, baby galaxies at this point in time, but we’ve discovered galaxies as mature as our own.”
The gifts Shirley Collins has given to us by her guardianship of England’s old folk songs should also be seen as an invitation to all peoples to recover their own folk music traditions.
His philosophy of history was unquestionably revolutionary, but Kojève was a conservative. The essence of his prescription for Europe remains relevant for today’s geopolitical, economic, and cultural struggles.
On Saturday, Christ conquers the fires of hell, and leaves its gates ajar behind him.
“Whereas the Matthäus-Passion and Johannes-Passion are extremely well-known and have long and well-established performance traditions, the libretto of the Markus is largely unknown, even to Bach scholars.”
A populist revolt is now our best hope of defending the true European values of democracy and national sovereignty.
It’s vital that we take risks in asserting our legal right to doubt and interrogate the ‘decolonising’ story, because what is at stake is so very important.
There is a macabre precedent in the bizarre accounts, world over, of people dancing themselves to death: an analogue to the painful hedonism of post-modernity.
Defenders of ‘the nation’ often fall back on practical issues of scale and power balance, ignoring the Biblical and Platonic tradition that celebrates the diversity of nations as an aesthetic good.
Consumer society and digital technology have demolished our linguistic spaces, shattering our foundational skillset for living virtuously and politically.
While the soul—like the Church—is indeed immortal, neither the body nor the State are. The zombie governments of this world shall continue to bounce off each other until they rot completely.
Alternate histories, by showing what could have been—and might yet be—treat the past as a traversable terrain.
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