Alberto M. Fernandez | The European Conservative

The Muslim Warlord Still Haunting Spain

Alberto M. Fernandez August 31, 2022

Beneath the tales of Almanzor’s campaigns is an intriguing subtext which seems to subvert preconceived modern Muslim and Christian notions of what medieval warfare between the two great religions was actually like in Al-Andalus.

A Centurion Not of Caesar but of Christ

Alberto M. Fernandez June 2, 2022

One figure worthy of rediscovery, especially for those of a conservative or religious inclination, is the French soldier and writer Ernest Psichari who converted during his time as a soldier between 1909 and 1912, in what is today Mauritania.

Feverish Episodes of Nazi Reverie

Alberto M. Fernandez May 10, 2022

As a work of serial military fabulism, Ezquerra’s book is an interesting cultural artifact. I laughed more than once at the author’s sheer gall, but Ezquerra himself is an unpleasant figure. A literary liar is bad enough; a Nazi literary liar seems even more obscene.

Rebel for the Sake of Tradition

Alberto M. Fernandez April 5, 2022

Fr. Bryan Houghton has an enduring message, which remains relevant for the Church and for society in the West today: “tradition is not nostalgia for the past but precisely the transmission of one’s inheritance to the future.”

Afterlife of an American Pulpster

Alberto M. Fernandez March 8, 2022

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.

A Frenchman’s Passion for Seville

Alberto M. Fernandez January 24, 2022

Ostensibly about bullfighting, it is actually the greatest book published by a foreigner about the city of Seville and one of the great books on Spain.

A Light Out of the Prisons of Atheist Albania

Alberto M. Fernandez December 27, 2021

It is almost as if Don Simon Jubani was prepared to be a political prisoner. His collaborators and admirers describe him as “a nut with a hard shell,” “tough,” “passionate for the truth,” “uncompromising,” “provocative and justice-seeking,” and “highly intelligent though impatient.” He was an athletic priest (a former soccer star) who ministered to five mountainous rural parishes in the Mirdita region before he was arrested in 1963. The toughness comes across in print.

The End of Outremer

Alberto M. Fernandez December 13, 2021

Canadian-Lebanese writer Nader Moumneh’s 2018 book fills a useful niche in that it is a sympathetic and detailed overview of the main Lebanese Christian military-political formation born during the Lebanese Civil War, a formation that became a leading Lebanese nationalist political party after the war ended.

VOX at Viva21: Spain Still Lives

Alberto M. Fernandez October 20, 2021

Vox is not against Europe but is in favor of truly sovereign states within the framework of Europe. It will stand with others against the intolerant “European Taliban” of the Left: “We will reconstruct what they destroy and rebuild what they demolish.”

Tag: Alberto M. Fernandez

The Muslim Warlord Still Haunting Spain

A Centurion Not of Caesar but of Christ

Feverish Episodes of Nazi Reverie

Rebel for the Sake of Tradition

Afterlife of an American Pulpster

A Frenchman’s Passion for Seville

A Light Out of the Prisons of Atheist Albania

The End of Outremer

VOX at Viva21: Spain Still Lives

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