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Eat Mutton, Wear Wool, Heat with Wood:
Traditional Ways to Stop Wildfires

Bridget Ryder August 3, 2022

Locals, forestry experts, farmers, and ecologists all agreed that the principal problem is bad forest management, which is best countered by a return of rural life and its traditional activities, particularly extensive cattle farming. But it’s easier said than done.

Bringing Europe’s Rural Villages Back to Life

Bridget Ryder July 18, 2022

As lovely as it is to see far-flung hamlets of stone houses reinhabited, it is also sometimes difficult to find in their tenuous revival a genuine re-founding of the traditional Europe of which they were originally a part.

Common Culture and Identity: On Surviving as a People

Sebastian Morello July 8, 2022

One of the terrible features of modernity is that we measure everything by the criteria of productivity and success. But we were not made to be productive, nor to be successful, at least not as our world understands such terms. We were made to flourish.

A French History of Traditionalists

Manuel Vieira da Cruz May 15, 2022

The subject of these pages is, in a broad sense, religious—Catholic—traditionalists. Yves Chiron also explains why being a ‘traditionalist’ is not exactly the same as being a ‘traditional’ Catholic.

Them Before Us: An Interview with Katy Faust

Tóth Bíró Zsófia March 15, 2022

“No adult group escapes the eye of Them Before Us. It is an organization that insists that all adults—single, married, gay, and straight—all sacrifice for children. No adult gets a pass. Every adult has to do the hard things, so that children’s rights are protected.”—Katy Faust

Humanist Weddings: a Solution to the Crisis of Traditional Marriage in Europe?

Hélène de Lauzun March 15, 2022

Far from what the label suggests, humanist weddings do not free spouses to live in accordance with truth. The reconquest of freedom is at the heart of Christian marriage, which for centuries has been one of the original features and strengths of Western civilisation.

A Post-Modern Defence of Ritual

Joseph Shaw March 6, 2022

Byung-Chul Han draws attention to the value of things which have been the subject of neglect and indeed vilification for three hundred years in the West: inherited loyalties, roles, and customs.

Carnival Gothic: A Look at the Ominous Figures of Europe’s Winter Masquerades

Carlos Perona Calvete March 1, 2022

Today we are far from understanding carnival, precisely because we live in a continuous carnival, a constant inversion of norms. But if revolution is a parody of carnival, the totalitarian control that follows is a parody of Lent—and we can already see those austere masts on the horizon.

The Gods of the Valley are Not the Gods of the Hills

A.M. Fantini February 11, 2022

I spent part of the Christmas Season in the American state where I spent most of my childhood: Vermont. Known today primarily for its left-wing

Save the Parish: An Interview with Dr. Alison Milbank

Carlos Perona Calvete February 10, 2022

In the wake of the Anglican Church’s move to phase out the parish system, an informal group called Save the Parish is asserting the importance of local worship and of retaining sacred places set aside for devotion.

Tag: tradition

Eat Mutton, Wear Wool, Heat with Wood:
Traditional Ways to Stop Wildfires

Bringing Europe’s Rural Villages Back to Life

Common Culture and Identity: On Surviving as a People

A French History of Traditionalists

Them Before Us: An Interview with Katy Faust

Humanist Weddings: a Solution to the Crisis of Traditional Marriage in Europe?

A Post-Modern Defence of Ritual

Carnival Gothic: A Look at the Ominous Figures of Europe’s Winter Masquerades

The Gods of the Valley are Not the Gods of the Hills

Save the Parish: An Interview with Dr. Alison Milbank

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