Tag: Issue 33

Afrikaners: A Link Between Africa and the West

Afrikaner culture is a unique nexus between the West and Africa. If Afrikaners have no future in Africa, then our culture does not have any future at all. However, a similar existential threat awaits us should we stay in Africa but neglect or reject our Western roots. It is precisely the preservation of this combination of two heritages which has made Afrikaners who we are.

The Monarch: a Lasting Symbol of National Unity

“We are facing a genuine crisis of civilisation—not only in Brazil but also in Europe, in America, and across the globe. This is a moment of polarisation, a crisis of values and principles. It represents a clash of belief systems.”
An Interview with HIRH Rafael of Orléans-Bragança, Prince Imperial of Brazil

Post-Apocalyptic Pagan Nationalism with a Christian Eye

A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth:
“Orthodoxy, unlike much Western Christianity, has not bent with the times, so … we have to build communities, even in our own homes, and try to hold to those values. It’s hard. Building communities with others will be the key. But Christians now in the West are like those in the early centuries: we are minorities in a ‘secular’ world. We have to live as such.”

The New Iconoclasm

Today’s iconoclasts seek little more than a photograph in the newspaper, if not a prison sentence—think of the media-ready antics of Just Stop Oil, throwing soup on Van Gogh or spraying Stonehenge with orange paint. Any attention they might lend to their cause is smothered in a self-serving narcissistic love of the image of themselves performing destruction.

Thomas Molnar: The Hungarian Tocqueville

Molnar recognizes that the fundamental questions of political philosophy have remained the same since Plato: Whence does power come? Who holds it? And on what basis?

Keeping Christmas All the Year

Becoming Christmas is living in the knowledge, as St. John writes, that “as he is, so also are we in this world.”