Category: Essay

On the Rural Life

The relative advantages of urban and rural life have long been a matter of dispute, never fully resolved because never fully resolvable.

Why Central Europe Must Unite

The mutual resentments of the past two centuries must be dropped if these countries are to retain their own identities.

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.

Tradition and Human Flourishing

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.

November 14, 2024
Boy King, Deep State

Boy King, Deep State

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

November 13, 2024
Death’s Fork in the Road

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.

November 11, 2024
Velázquez, Juan Bautista del Mazo, and the True Origins of Bourgeois Individualism

Velázquez, Juan Bautista del Mazo, and the True Origins of Bourgeois Individualism

The most striking difference between “Las Meninas” and Mazo’s “Familia del pintor” is the juxtaposition of families depicted.

November 11, 2024
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