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Saviors and Savages: Herbert’s Dune and the Modern Predicament

Carlos Perona Calvete January 16, 2022

Today, we might find Dune’s imagery allegorical. The world, or the public sphere, has in many respects been rendered inhospitable. The once baroque diversity of cultural forms has been drastically reduced. A desertscape has replaced the lush filigree characteristic of more traditional societies.

What is Education?

Christiaan Alting von Geusau January 15, 2022

Once we have firmly established truth and beauty as the foundations of our educational efforts, we can start with undertaking the first and most difficult task in the educational adventure of making visible the hidden seed: character formation.

Dusk of the Enlightenment

Daria Fedotova December 26, 2021

The Enlightenment had its fair share of such confusion. It was a time of truly scientific pursuits; of Voltaire’s brave and sharp remarks; of Hume’s observant rationality. But it also produced Rousseau, whose romantic view of freedom inspired generations of rebels. They thought that only monarchs and nobles could be oppressive, for they had not yet seen tyranny of the people.

Give Us Back Our Lady!

Hélène de Lauzun December 5, 2021

The terrible incident of the Notre Dame fire should have been the occasion to renovate a church so damaged by the ravages of time, to make it even more beautiful. Instead, the sorcerer’s apprentices in charge of its destiny have preferred to indulge in their dreams of experimentation, as if a centuries-old cathedral were a creative laboratory subsidized by the Ministry of Culture.

On Believing Conspiracy Theories

Sebastian Morello November 22, 2021

We are, then, in a rather odd situation. It seems that conspiracies are deemed believable when they arise in fiction. It also seems that conspiracies are thought to have really happened, and are considered an essential component in even a superficial understanding of history. But anyone who suggests that we may be in the grips of a conspiracy now is a ‘conspiracy theorist,’ a pejorative term that denotes a person who does not assent to all he is told by mainstream media outlets. 

Populism and the Defence of Norms

Jonathon Van Maren November 21, 2021

Progressives believe that the right-wing populists must be destroyed. Not because populists are smashing norms; it is because they are, in many cases, defending the norms that progressives are busy dismantling.

The Culture War Against the Past

Frank Furedi November 17, 2021

The mere hint that a point of view is outdated serves as a signal that it need not be taken seriously. It can be legitimately vilified and condemned.

Revolution and Reaction

Jonathan Culbreath October 11, 2021

There is a path forward, but it is a narrow and tricky one that winds along the knife-edge between revolution and reaction.

Europe and Dogs

Sebastian Morello October 8, 2021

Europeans have a fascinating relationship with dogs, a relationship that does not seem to exist in any other civilisation.

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