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On Being from Somewhere: Between Conquerors and Cosmopolitans

Carlos Perona Calvete February 5, 2022

One cannot be a ‘citizen of the world,’ and the sense in which it is invoked often tends to accompany a vexed gesture meant to cast off the weight of provincialism, thick accents, and attachments.

National Stereotypes and Global Power

Carlos Perona Calvete February 3, 2022

Are we not already seeing Europeans cast as bloodless believers in empty pietisms, and has Europe not, for some time now, been seen as an ineffectual beached whale on the far west of Asia?

The Death of Discussion Culture

David Boos February 3, 2022

We are in a situation in which a democratic decision-making process has been abandoned in favour of deferral to the ‘experts’ chosen by the media. This cannot be good.

The Battle of the Good and the Beautiful

Hélène de Lauzun January 29, 2022

We must know how to trust great literature, which invites the deployment of intense and demanding feelings. The elevation of the soul of the youth suffers in the absence of great literary works; they remain constricted in an elementary vision of the world, of feelings, of relationships between people.

Deep Roots Are Not Touched by the Frost: Karl von Habsburg on the Future of Europe

Charles A. Coulombe January 29, 2022

What strikes one is Karl von Habsburg’s willingness to say things which—while entirely true—would not be said by any current politician. Moreover, it hints at a vision entirely in keeping with that of his Habsburg predecessors, yet once again altered to fit the vastly changed circumstances in which we now find ourselves.

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.

Freedom of Inexpression

Hélène de Lauzun January 10, 2022

In her brilliant essay, Anne-Sophie Chazaud, a French journalist and columnist, dismantles the systemic character of the censures we are subjected to today.

Spain Secularizes the Nativity Scene

Bridget Ryder January 10, 2022

Are Nativity scenes deprived of their spiritual essence even worth preserving or is a cultural Nativity scene not apt to just become another aspect of a commercialized Christmas, preserved primarily for atmosphere, nostalgia, and economic value?

The Open Society and its Demons

Carlos Perona Calvete January 5, 2022

We should be open to receiving wholeness and beauty, open to the transcendent as it manifests in the bizarre fact of harmony, the startling presence of relationship. In this way we may manifest our oikos in all its coherence, its unity, and avoid developing the kind of resentment that would have us go about compulsively deconstructing our neighbor’s identity.

Tag: culture

On Being from Somewhere: Between Conquerors and Cosmopolitans

National Stereotypes and Global Power

The Death of Discussion Culture

The Battle of the Good and the Beautiful

Deep Roots Are Not Touched by the Frost: Karl von Habsburg on the Future of Europe

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

What is Education?

Freedom of Inexpression

Spain Secularizes the Nativity Scene

The Open Society and its Demons

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