On Not Looking Awful: The Three Sartorial Basics
In praise of a snobbery that strives to elevate others and rejoice in their aesthetic successes.
In praise of a snobbery that strives to elevate others and rejoice in their aesthetic successes.
All trads are a little ‘fake.’ The truth is, all traditionalism in our wretched age is—given what the previous generations have taken from us.
The Incarnation of the Eternal Logos in Jesus Christ is the great pivotal repudiation of the reign of false spirits in history.
I want Christians to understand the intelligible reasons for our ethical convictions.
We must recover a society suffused with the wonder that nourishes the soul.
There is something uncanny about the evident humanness of an old artifact—and something comforting as well.
We did not choose modernity, but we can choose how to live within it.
To rebel against modernity may involve the overthrow of the modern in the interest of reviving something older.
In our nihilistic age, Boito’s Mefistofele may be primed for a comeback.
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.