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The Illusion of a Left Without Woke

Juan Carlos Aguilera Pérez August 22, 2026

Susan Neiman is right to challenge the excesses of identity politics—but wrong to treat them as an alien intrusion. The ideas behind today’s politics of identity grew from within the Left itself, raising a deeper question about whether it can escape the intellectual path that led it here.

German Minister Says Freedom Is Under Attack—From the Right

Zolta Győri June 2, 2025

Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer (CDU) said Enlightenment values are threatened by nationalists, especially in the U.S.

The Modern-Day Sophie: A Marriage of the Rousseauian and Wollstonecraftian Mind

Maria-Katrina Cortez March 8, 2024

Many women think that motherhood and professional life are mutually exclusive—the marriage of Rousseau and Wollstonecraft can perhaps provide an antidote.

Pope Francis’ ‘Role Models’ for the Russian Youth

Maciej Dybowski December 16, 2023

Pope Francis’ off-the-cuff remarks are a significant part of his teaching, and as such, they cannot be ignored.

‘Freedom’ vs. God

Thaddeus Kozinski October 12, 2023

We have not been gradually losing our rights, freedoms, and political power. In truth, we never really had them to begin with, for they were never grounded in true political authority.

Conservatism, Nationalism, and Modernity

Andreas Kinneging October 3, 2023

We are the first to live in a completely new era that no longer wants anything to do with the thinking of the ancestors, but is based entirely on a new spirit and new values.

Can Hermetic Magic Rescue the Church? Part II: Behold, The Kingdom of God is Within You

Sebastian Morello July 30, 2023

The spirit of modern Western man is like a faulty pressure cooker that’s going to explode, and every attempt to fix the problem pushes him further into false and malignant solutions of individualism, statism, transhumanism, and all the deceitful promises of the technological age.

Faithful, Ignorant, or Brainwashed? An Interview on the Family with Joseph Shaw

Julian Kwasniewski July 2, 2023

We need to think carefully about how to understand the modern world, how to deal with it, and how to introduce our children to it. The family can be a safe space to learn about these things.

The Real Problem With Andrew Tate

Harrison Pitt December 10, 2022

A truly virtuous masculinity would involve men becoming capable of imitating Andrew Tate and then willingly refusing to do so. For what could be less admirable than a man who publicly makes performative utterances against the villain while living vicariously through his exploits?

Original Sin as “First Free Act of Man”? Kant’s Enlightenment Revisited

Jan Bentz October 27, 2022

The picking of the apple in Eden was not a proper use of freedom but the contrary—an action that submitted reason and will to a higher power that does not have mankind’s best interest in mind.

Tag: Enlightenment

The Illusion of a Left Without Woke

German Minister Says Freedom Is Under Attack—From the Right

The Modern-Day Sophie: A Marriage of the Rousseauian and Wollstonecraftian Mind

Pope Francis’ ‘Role Models’ for the Russian Youth

‘Freedom’ vs. God

Conservatism, Nationalism, and Modernity

Can Hermetic Magic Rescue the Church? Part II: Behold, The Kingdom of God is Within You

Faithful, Ignorant, or Brainwashed? An Interview on the Family with Joseph Shaw

The Real Problem With Andrew Tate

Original Sin as “First Free Act of Man”? Kant’s Enlightenment Revisited

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