When discouraged by events in the here and now, we should remember that “not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time.”
Recent abortion laws allow the moral supremacist to drive a dagger through the very notion that our rights, including the right to life, are given to us by God. Separating personhood—a legislative definition—from life has given government full jurisdiction over our rights.
I have dedicated much of my life to studying the great philosophers and scholars of our civilisation, but from none have I learned as much about true human flourishing as I have from the peasant girl of Nettuno.
Bolingbroke is, perhaps, the most obvious figure to represent secular conservatism. He was a statesman, an historian, and a philosopher; he was also a libertine, and no stranger to intrigues he denounced.
The dawn of Western civilisation carried a strong focus on martial arts. In a world where war often lurked around the corner, it was paramount that one should be able to defend oneself. In our times, war again haunts our continent. It may be time to rediscover our martial roots.
Why are we allowing corporations to profit both from the desperation of people struggling with infertility and women in poverty?
The God of Genesis may have promised never again to send a flood upon the whole earth; but he did not promise not to send capitalism.
As the Season has drawn to a close, I have been reflecting on the meaning of hunting. Some hunts this Season have transported me into a timeless experience into which, no doubt, many hunting people have been taken.
Emperor Charles died on the 1st of April, 1922, at 12:23 pm, saying the name “Jesus” one last time.
Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” is one of the most popular pieces of classical music in the world. Aesthetic changes in the 19th century have created an image of a proto-romantic work, while in fact it may be an homage to a bygone tradition of the 18th century.
“We will not have the Armenians anywhere in Anatolia. They can live in the desert but nowhere else.” With the soldiers neutralized and massacres and deportations in progress, it was time for a decapitation strike to eliminate the Armenian leadership with a single blow.
The Ordinariate is a fine example of realising Newman’s foundational conservative principle, namely that “of uniting what is free in the new structure of society with what is authoritative in the old, without any base compromise with ‘Progress’ and ‘Liberalism.'”
