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Destination: Kyiv Reporting from the Ukrainian Capital

Kyiv has been hardly affected by major destruction yet, but there are checkpoints on every corner, and air raid sirens vail every thirty minutes, reminding everyone that a war is going on, right here, right now. A report from the war zone.

Levente László Greczula March 13, 2022

Why Some Catholics Think J.R.R. Tolkien Could Be a Saint

Tolkien maintained a great Marian piety throughout his lifetime. Indeed, he said that his entire vision of beauty was grounded in the simplicity and magnificence of the Mother of God.

Daniel Côté Davis March 12, 2022

Wokesters and Whigs: A Tale of Two Supremacies

The problem with complacent ruling elites is that, to justify their dominance, they are forced to resuscitate old terrors and to make up new ones. They rely on phantom enemies against which they can pose as our protectors.

Harrison Pitt March 11, 2022

Romanticising Rebellion

Fictional rebellions invite us to side with the underdog. The story conveniently ends with their victory, but leaves no ruined lives and no unhealable scars—nothing to contradict the idea of a newly found paradise.

Daria Fedotova March 10, 2022

Defending Camelot

The Arthurian legend, despite attempts to use it for other purposes, is a parable of a militant Catholicism that saved Western civilisation.

Charles A. Coulombe March 9, 2022

Ukraine’s Forgotten Corner: Transcarpathia’s Hungarian Minority Faces The War

Unlike the majority of refugees, Transcarpathian Hungarians are at least familiar with Hungary thanks to family ties or working relationships. They do not come as strangers.

Zoltán Veczán March 8, 2022

Afterlife of an American Pulpster

Howard, the writers who influenced him, and many of those that came after in the same heroic vein seem more outside the pale of literary respectability than they would have been a century ago. It is not just the artificial divide between Literature with a capital L and popular genre fiction, or the modern disdain for the writers of the past. The even greater divide is between unironically portraying heroism in the West and despising it and deconstructing it in order to bring about its demise.

Alberto M. Fernandez March 8, 2022

The Pope Whisperer: Don Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956)

To fully appreciate Perosi, we must try to look at the hope he sparked in people during his golden age.

David Boos March 7, 2022

Remembering Catalonia, Part II: The Business of Betrayal

Catalan separatism emerged when the region’s bourgeoisie began facing the end of a long period of economic privilege during which the Spanish state’s policies had benefited Catalonia over most other regions. The threat of secession would now function as an invaluable bargaining chip to retain privileges.

Carlos Perona Calvete March 7, 2022

Russian Attack on Ukraine Intensifies: Voices from Kyiv

Kyiv is under constant air attacks. The sirens can go off at any minute, sending the capital’s residents into basements or the subway, and the warning usually sounds at least a couple of times throughout the day and night.

Bridget Ryder March 7, 2022

Category: Essay

Destination: Kyiv Reporting from the Ukrainian Capital

Why Some Catholics Think J.R.R. Tolkien Could Be a Saint

Wokesters and Whigs: A Tale of Two Supremacies

Romanticising Rebellion

Defending Camelot

Ukraine’s Forgotten Corner: Transcarpathia’s Hungarian Minority Faces The War

Afterlife of an American Pulpster

The Pope Whisperer: Don Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956)

Remembering Catalonia, Part II: The Business of Betrayal

Russian Attack on Ukraine Intensifies: Voices from Kyiv

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