Our Easter Constitution

The various anxieties, conflicts, and turmoil that we currently see across Europe and the world can be quite discouraging. They can also easily lead to dark fits of anger or despair—especially when we unremittingly see our cultures being attacked, our religious roots erased, and our girls groomed and raped. And with so many of our ruling elites continuing to ignore the obvious decline and ruin of the West, remaining hopeful or joyous about anything—and avoiding wrath or ire—is an immense personal challenge.

Admittedly, my own writings—both here online and in our print quarterly—have often adopted a dark, perhaps even pessimistic, tone. I’ve been chided for this, but I’ve worn the ‘Dr. Doom’ label proudly, arguing that pessimism is a sort of realism. Still, I’ve aways held out for the remote possibility—the mere outlying chance, even if far off into the future—that with enough effort, cooperation, and organization, we on the Right might someday be able to turn things around.

This belief that not all is lost, that there are reasons to remain hopeful, and that with the right efforts—and sufficient disruption—things will improve, can be felt particularly acutely during Eastertide, which began on Resurrection Sunday yesterday. Celebrated—by happy coincidence of the calendars—in both Eastern and Western churches on the same day (April 20), the Easter Season is an apt time to remember to hold on to a bit of hope. Easter reminds us that beyonddeath there is life, and that beyond this world there is an afterlife (provided we’ve earned salvation).

For those of us who are active in the public sphere, Easter is also an ideal time to remember that despite the debasement, degradation, and destruction of the world our ancestors and forefathers created, we can still find instances of the good. It’s rare, but it’s there. Goodness requires great courage and moral clarity.

Think of Hungary’s ‘Easter Constitution,’ which it ratified in Easter of 2011. Amid international opprobrium, the heroic little country managed to revise its Constitution (and Preamble) so that it recognized God and defined marriage as the union between a man and a woman. And, this year, in its April 2025 amendments, it has gone further—protecting children, affirming that people are born either male or female, and standing against drugs and foreign interference.

These actions further strengthen Hungary’s standing as one of the only Western countries to promote or bring the good into a fallen world of aberrations and derangement. Their example is nothing short of counterrevolutionary. But we need more such examples.

Thus, one of our challenges, as men and women of the Right, is to make our own contributions to the modicum of good in the world. How? One way is by simply giving ourselves to others; by living with integrity; by acting with humility and charity—even when we wield great power or influence. (In fact, the more power someone wields, the more humility is required of him.)

So, during this Easter Season, we conservatives and Rightists should take some time to think about how we behave and how we interact with others. On the one hand, we cannot abdicate the responsibility we have to be co-creators and stewards of the world we inhabit. We have to continue to reject—ever more vigorously—the neo-Marxist assaults on our culture, the replacement of our native populations, and the many violations of sexual and human dignity.

On the other hand, we should remember that we are still called to be ipse Christus. This means that amid our many counterrevolutionary and neoreactionary efforts, even as we wage war against the sexual Left to protect our families, we should remember to never sink to the crass and vulgar level of our enemies. We still have to find, in the words of Pope Francis, a way to be “sowers of peace and builders of fraternity.” We can do that while saving the West.