Category: Essay

Cy Twombly, The Unlikely Futurist

Those who can see past their prejudices will discern in Twombly’s work a revolutionary aesthetic experience, where movement flows hot and red in a thrilling abstraction of Italian futurism.

Conservatism, Nationalism, and Modernity

We are the first to live in a completely new era that no longer wants anything to do with the thinking of the ancestors, but is based entirely on a new spirit and new values.

From the Great Replacement to Great Turmoil

If the most dramatic change brought by mass migration is seen in European ethno-cultural identity, the most concrete, immediate, and undeniable consequence is the rise in violence and crime.

Surviving the Synod

The sad fact is that the Church has lost faith in the Gospel. That is why it seeks to promote a new gospel of inclusion, equality, and environmentalism. The best way to survive the synod is simply to ignore it.

Religion in Politics and the Need for Nostalgia

The integralism of post-liberal Catholics risks reducing to an abstractionist exercise what is known by experience and cultural induction, thereby perpetuating the age of ideological squabbles which they ought to be repudiating in entirety.

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.

Nation and Religion in Judaism

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.

Revolving Doors

Revolving Doors

Twelve years since officially forswearing violence, ETA terrorists have mastered the political fray.

Metaphysics of Architecture: A Look at Gottfried Semper’s <em>Urkunst</em>

Metaphysics of Architecture: A Look at Gottfried Semper’s <em>Urkunst</em>

By locating the essence of traditional architecture in the primacy of character over concrete—the pattern we see over the material we don’t—Semper championed particularity over uniformity.

Social Isolation is a Global Health Crisis

Social Isolation is a Global Health Crisis

An increasing number of young men have traded in actual, physical friendships for artificial interactions online. Isolated and starved of human interaction, these young men are living lives of abject misery. Isolating oneself from broader society is, in many ways, an early death sentence.

May 30, 2023
Eco-anxiety: Salvation Through Terror

Eco-anxiety: Salvation Through Terror

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.

May 29, 2023
After the Crowning

After the Crowning

“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.

Voegelin on Popper’s <em>Open Society and Its Enemies</em>

Voegelin on Popper’s <em>Open Society and Its Enemies</em>

Unparalleled in terms of harsh criticism: Voegelin opines on Popper’s work in correspondence with Leo Strauss.

May 28, 2023
Portugal’s National Revolution—97 Years Later

Portugal’s National Revolution—97 Years Later

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.

Democracy Without Parties

Democracy Without Parties

In this small Spanish municipality, neighbors have banished political parties from local elections.

Symbols and Sock-Puppets: The Cross That Doesn’t Save 

Symbols and Sock-Puppets: The Cross That Doesn’t Save 

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 Can’t Save the West from Itself

Ukraine Can’t Save the West from Itself

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.

May 13, 2023
Europe Needs Leaders with Character

Europe Needs Leaders with Character

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.

Erdoğan vs Atatürk: A Conflict of Values

Erdoğan vs Atatürk: A Conflict of Values

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.

May 7, 2023