Uncertainty: To Hope’s End and Heart’s Breaking
Uncertainty faces us more regularly than certainty. What are we to make of this?
Julian Kwasniewski
August 26, 2023
All (good) philosophy begins with experience of reality—and such experience is the fundamental prerequisite for good archery.
The ‘Deep State’ is not some murky entity, hiding in the shadows; it is on full display, a former intelligence officer insists.
Archery, the Japanese have long believed, supplements the interior journey towards a state of wisdom, a journey that to some degree we must all undertake if we are to avoid becoming a nuisance to others.
It is as if, in the boomer-con’s mind, liberalism is a ‘nice principle’ that ought to temper the ‘nasty but necessary principle’ of conservatism. Young-cons, however, don’t identify liberalism with niceness at all.
Archery takes that great inheritance of which we’ve been robbed and retrieves it in distilled and concentrated form.
In a country that’s been binge-drinking at the font of liberty for a half-century, the American New Right is betting that the hangover is setting in.
It is no wonder that the countryside and small towns have always remained a bastion of traditionalism, naturally suspicious of progress and resistant to change.
There is a dark fascination with incels in our culture, but narratives surrounding these disenfranchised young men fluctuate between the sensationalist and the downright stupid.
The green banner of environmentalism rightfully belongs to those who resist the ideology of entropy, the global breakdown of every function and form, from borders to genders.
The EU is the incarnation of the delusional belief that peoples, nations, and cultures can be moulded into a sense of belonging based on the lowest legal common denominator.
Hungary is unique in enthusiastically welcoming conservatives from all around the world, and offering them a space in which they can voice their convictions without constantly being hounded.
The Irish Catholic Church still has a deeply faithful lay remnant. It is also served by many fine priests who, despite little diocesan support and a hostile climate, continue to labour tirelessly in the vineyard of the Lord.
