Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023
We would do well to consider whether Kissinger should be a role model or a cautionary tale.
Paul du Quenoy
December 10, 2023
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.
Throughout his life, Stefan Zweig promoted the idea of a peaceful, united Europe but this was a call which went unheard during his lifetime. On the 80th anniversary of his suicide, his forgotten calls for peace in Europe are as urgent as ever.
We are poorer for his absence—now that we no longer have in our halls of power this uncomplicated, good-natured, and principled man who had an irrepressibly sunny disposition.
Tom Howard is dead, and the tributes have been pouring in. […] He was one of my favorite people in the whole world. And he had a lasting influence on my life.
A brief tribute to one of the great—and most prescient—men of French letters.
Professor Norman Stone, the renowned historian who died aged 78 on June 19 this year, was an outstandingly colourful figure on a British intellectual landscape that has long had an accelerating tendency to the flat, dull, monochrome, and ideologically uniform. Norman Stone spoke his mind and lived as he pleased, for which he was both […]
