Conservatism Today: A Philosophical Crisis
Conservatives are about to realise that they have inherited an untenable philosophy for the world in which we find ourselves. On its current course, the Anglo-American tradition is doomed to fail.
Conservatives are about to realise that they have inherited an untenable philosophy for the world in which we find ourselves. On its current course, the Anglo-American tradition is doomed to fail.
The circumstances in Slovakia demand steady leadership, ideally with support from the populace.
The focus on values over virtues has led to a relativistic and superficial understanding of human flourishing.
“I would never leave France, but I understand why people feel this way. Nobody wants to be robbed. Nobody wants to be raped.”
Today’s prototypical Westerner is unlikely to think of nationality when he thinks of Judaism. In many cases, one even encounters the denial of Judaism’s national character.
Balázs Orbán’s The Hungarian Way of Strategy is now published in French. What can it offer the French reader?
For those in denial, an immigrant is just a generic human unit who brings no cultural baggage with him.
By highlighting how the size, type, and style of constructions can all fit, Krier shows us the way (post)modern architecture and urbanism are based on the perverse thrill of mismatch and contradiction.
If someone in the audience kept talking after Corelli had already started playing, he would immediately lower his violin until the room had become completely silent. If the talking continued, he would refuse to play at all.
Rather than being opposed to the establishment, these activist foot soldiers provide the street muscle, fierce passion, and raised voices that bureaucrats dare not show.
Awareness of a hypothetical climate apocalypse is causing more and more individuals to fall into grief and despair, suffer panic attacks, and give up their life projects.
“Germany ceased to have Kings when the Germans ceased to be a Kingly people.” Such could be said of any nation in Europe, or her daughter nations across the seas. Let us pray and work to deserve better than the rulers we now have.
Unparalleled in terms of harsh criticism: Voegelin opines on Popper’s work in correspondence with Leo Strauss.
Those who set the direction of what came to be called the National Revolution didn’t quite know what they wanted, but they certainly knew what they didn’t want: the growing radicalisation and constitutional crises, against a threatening backdrop of Communism, seen elsewhere in postwar Europe.
In this small Spanish municipality, neighbors have banished political parties from local elections.
There’s little point in visiting a monastery where none of the monks have tasted beatitude, and a father who hasn’t kept faith over years of disciplining action can’t really hope to steer his son true.
Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression serves an illusion for a certain kind of American and pro-Atlanticist conservative in Europe: that Ukraine’s patriots can fill the West’s spiritual and cultural void.
For the aspirations of the Maastricht Treaty to become a reality, Europe would need to cultivate a climate of mutual trust and consensus among the various member states.
A generation of Turks, craving modernization and disappointed in the current government, associate their dreams and desires for a democratic Turkey with the name of Atatürk.
While the world watches the coronation of the new King of the United Kingdom and the 14 commonwealth realms, on the other side of Europe some will be thinking about the disappearance of their own monarchical traditions.
Historical facts are often presented in a way that suits the prevailing narrative of the struggle of the free and Western liberal-democracies against autocracies.
It’s imperative that we strive to understand Marx’s account of history and justice, given that it continues to possess so much of the public debate on who we are and what our future may look like.