
The Pandemic Lockdowns: This Century’s Sacking of the Monasteries
Despite talk of the pandemic being ‘unprecedented,’ at least one dimension of the lockdowns did have precedent.

Despite talk of the pandemic being ‘unprecedented,’ at least one dimension of the lockdowns did have precedent.

If we do not wish for our reality to become a boundless, shapeshifting simulacrum, we may just need to rebuild the entire modern worldview from the ground up.

In Hills Like White Elephants Hemingway immortalized a conversation not just of that time, but of all times: a man trying to persuade a woman who is already a mother that she is not yet a mother.

Cayalá should encourage both our traditionalist and voluntarist instincts. Its prosperity is a testament to traditional design principles, while the speed with which it was built shows us what is possible.

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.
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.
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.