Alain Delon was a real man, the likes of whom we are incapable of producing today, and that’s what makes France’s tears so bitter.

With Anderson’s passing, a great American war hero and triple ace pilot has left us.

With the death of John Bellingham, conservatism has lost one of its greatest sons.

We would do well to consider whether Kissinger should be a role model or a cautionary tale.

Kissinger rejected the idea of America as a ‘City upon a hill’ and exercised a statesmanship guided by power, not morality.

FROM THE FALL 2023 PRINT EDITION: Dom Luiz was always aware of his hereditary—and, in his eyes, God-given—obligations.

This year, on May 10th, we lost a gentleman. He was not only a brilliant musicologist and Italian cultural figure, but also the most gifted ambassador of his adoptive father’s work.

FROM THE SUMMER 2023 PRINT EDITION: Martin Amis got the collective cultural impact of pornography right while most were still defending it. “Porno, it seems, is a parody of love,” he wrote.

In what turned out to be his last public homily, delivered three days before he died, Cardinal Pell referred to the “heritage of Wojtyla and Ratzinger.” In addition to being courageous teachers of the Catholic faith, they were, Pell said, also “Europeans, examples of men with profound knowledge of the high culture of the Western world.”

Her motto: “Never complain, never explain” is something we could all take heart from, not just one or two minor royals.

In four short years, the spirit of reform ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev tore down one of the most totalitarian constructs in modern human history and allowed for the healing of scars that had marred an entire continent for decades.

Almost a century old, she still took a vivid interest in my philosophical works and in the events, joys, and sufferings of my life. During her last years, the closer she came to eternal life, the kinder and more patient she became, more filled with that deep charity of which her husband had written so insightfully.