Category: Essay

In Vino Veritas

Let’s not let wine be ‘great-replaced’ by cannabis and tequila: it is a matter of civilisation!

On the Importance of Oikophilia

Oikophilia allows us to bring across the threshold things and institutions that endure even as civilization crumbles.

Tradition and Human Flourishing

A blind adherence to old forms is the path to sterility and death, we must instead act as emissaries of the living flame we possess by virtue of our singular relationship with its past.

Boy King, Deep State

Two stories of young kings provide a surprisingly prescient lesson for politics today.

Death’s Fork in the Road

In a span of a few weeks, I was confronted with two distinct views on death and two distinct ways of dying. In one was the illusion of self-mastery; in the other, the radical surrender of self.

Freedom through Virtue: Finding the Eternal Amid Chaos

Freedom through Virtue: Finding the Eternal Amid Chaos

In recovering a superior science of human action, we will nourish a more reasonable politics. Cicero points the way.

November 9, 2024
A Moral Argument Against Migration 

A Moral Argument Against Migration 

A government’s primary obligation is to the native people.

November 8, 2024
Epstein, Marías, and the Function of Fiction

Epstein, Marías, and the Function of Fiction

I understand that by reading late in the night, I am transformed into what I am reading.

November 5, 2024
To Combat Wokeness, We Need Karl Popper Back

To Combat Wokeness, We Need Karl Popper Back

Popper’s falsification theory could help combat data-free ideas that undermine our societies.

November 5, 2024
Civilisational Decline and Its Discontents

Civilisational Decline and Its Discontents

It becomes difficult to distinguish civilisation from savagery when elements of both lie intermingled in our midst.

November 5, 2024
The Aesthetics of Settlement

The Aesthetics of Settlement

Britain, like Europe, is suffering from a spiritual decay which manifests in the deterioration of its built environment.

November 2, 2024
Reason and Ruling: Recovering a Political Tradition of Calm

Reason and Ruling: Recovering a Political Tradition of Calm

To escape the cycle of hysterics, we need to recover an ancient approach to politics.

November 2, 2024
Freedom and Truth in an Age of Deception

Freedom and Truth in an Age of Deception

We are not made for lies.

November 2, 2024
Javier Marías and the Meaning of Memory

Javier Marías and the Meaning of Memory

It is ironic—and ultimately tragic—that in Spain, as across the West, the popular imagination increasingly fails to distinguish between ‘memory’ and facts.

November 1, 2024
Rebuilding R’lyeh: Houellebecq, Lovecraft, and the Meaning of Architecture 

Rebuilding R’lyeh: Houellebecq, Lovecraft, and the Meaning of Architecture 

Modern architecture is meant to transform human beings into alien beings upon their own former home-world.

October 31, 2024
What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About Immigration

What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About Immigration

Musk is right to attack replacement migration, but he should push his own logic a little further.

October 30, 2024
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic

The Republic had many constituting elements also present in our Western democracies. We can learn from its history.

October 24, 2024