The Patient on the Table: On the Somewhat Exaggerated Death of Poetry
Poetry is in rough shape—but why?
James Matthew Wilson
March 10, 2024
Poetry is in rough shape—but why?
A brief reconsideration of Peter Thiel’s justly famous essay may help us understand why, in politics, there is only the Straussian moment.
All Western nations face similar threats: the restriction of our freedoms, the dissolution of our identities, the undermining of the nation-state, and the elimination of the middle- and working-class.
Morello compellingly argues that the authentic conservative must open himself to the grace which is the ultimate remedy for our human and modern discontents.
FROM THE WINTER 2024 PRINT EDITION:
My ambition is for Reconquête’s ideas to win in France and in Europe.
If the state is the author of our rights and has the power to grant them to us, then they are not rights, but permissions that the state could revoke at any moment.