Category: Essay

Hermes is the Midwife to Dionysus

Let us seek to banish Hermes and his associates back towards the margins where they rightly belong before the maenads one day end up coming for us all.

“Ukraine is Not Russia”: What I Saw on the Ground

The international politics of this conflict are messy and complex, but from a nationalist—indeed, from a merely human—perspective, it is impossible not to admire Ukrainians for their courage, their tenacity, and their very survival.

The New Latin Conservatism

The Right must adapt its ideas, strategy, and discourse to the current political ‘dialectics,’ and not remain anchored to—or trapped by—approaches that are far from the concerns of citizens today.

The Bolivar Legacy
Part II: Debt and Regret

We may trace the beginning of Latin American poverty and economic subordination to Bolivar’s policy of garnering support by indebting his embryonic state.

The Origin of the Magi in Artistic Representation

The Three Kings represent the truth-seekers of the earth, the rulers of the ‘pagan’ realm, the lands which had not yet seen God but were nonetheless expecting the coming of the Lord.

Whereby Hangs the Tale, Marcel Proust?

It’s obvious Proust knew a great deal about art and architecture and music; he was a keen observer of human behavior, but he can take a moment and turn it into an eternity.

Jesus Is an End, Not a Means

The modern mind, which reduces everything to a means—a mere apparatus of use—subordinates even God to such a perverse conception of reality.

Shakespeare’s <em>Julius Caesar:</em><br>Part II, Regicide

Shakespeare’s <em>Julius Caesar:</em><br>Part II, Regicide

The second in a three-part series exploring Shakespeare’s engagement with pagan/Roman morality in Julius Caesar, this essay looks at the ethics of regicide.

August 20, 2022
Kierkegaard, the Conservative

Kierkegaard, the Conservative

Kierkegaard is hardly known for his political thought but he was a keen observer of his age, including the political revolutions and ideologies of his time.

August 19, 2022
The Romanticization of Mental Illness

The Romanticization of Mental Illness

The rise of videos celebrating and glamourizing mental illness is one of the alarming consequences of our ‘post-truth’ culture.

August 18, 2022
Apulian Rites: On the Love of Place

Apulian Rites: On the Love of Place

It isn’t easy for Europeans to love a place. Which is a provocative way of saying it isn’t easy for modern people to do so. We—moderns in general—are biassed towards language, and sooner see what we believe than believe what we see.

August 17, 2022
The Queering of J.R.R. Tolkien

The Queering of J.R.R. Tolkien

If these academics are believed, every closet in Middle Earth is absolutely stuffed with creatures eager to launch Pride Parades in Mordor and Drag Queen Story Hour in the Shire. This work is not simply academic navel-gazing—activists have petitioned Amazon to include LGBT characters in the new small screen adaption of Tolkien’s work.

August 17, 2022
The Tears of Lebanon

The Tears of Lebanon

For those who love Lebanon and its people, the apparent indifference of the West to this unique nation and its struggles is incomprehensible.

August 16, 2022
How the Latin Kings Became a Spanish Street Gang

How the Latin Kings Became a Spanish Street Gang

Simply railing against illegal immigration misses the point. Industrialization, urbanisation, globalisation, and crime are today a web of interconnected factors. Latin American gangs in Madrid are the perfect example.

August 15, 2022
Rising Holocaust Denial and the Islamist Mind

Rising Holocaust Denial and the Islamist Mind

The Western European elite has no trouble posting Holocaust remembrance messages on social media, but they struggle to recognize that the very immigration policies they favor actually contribute to anti-Semitism in Europe.

Sweden Still Facing NATO Obstacles

Sweden Still Facing NATO Obstacles

NATO expansion into the Nordic region of Europe could unnecessarily escalate tensions with Russia. In doing so, the expansion could cause a conflict which would not be in the interest of the United States.

August 13, 2022
Shakespeare’s <em>Julius Caesar:</em><br>Part I, Imperator

Shakespeare’s <em>Julius Caesar:</em><br>Part I, Imperator

The first in a three-part series exploring Shakespeare’s engagement with pagan/Roman morality in Julius Caesar, this essay focuses on the character of Caesar himself.

August 13, 2022
Poland’s Best Kept Secret

Poland’s Best Kept Secret

Poland’s conservative thought offered some crucial contributions in the early modern period of European history. Now, as Legutko, Stawrowski, Roszkowski, and others show us, it may also offer original solutions and alternatives to the maladies that rot the old continent today.

August 12, 2022
The Making of the “Orange Country”:<br>An Analysis of the Hungarian Electoral System

The Making of the “Orange Country”:<br>An Analysis of the Hungarian Electoral System

Under the American and British electoral systems, Viktor Orbán would have won 82% of parliamentary seats in 2022; and 98% of them back in 2010.

August 11, 2022