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In Defence of National Conservatism

Henry George September 19, 2022

The letter’s vision of universality tries to argue for the nation as an important element of a universal moral and ethical vision, but by skipping over the nation entirely when it describes the common good rising from families to the international realm, it reveals its bias against it.

Why Bother?

David Boos September 12, 2022

Perhaps people have bought into the various scarcity programs of recent years—the scarcity of social contacts during the pandemic, scarcity of energy, scarcity of food—because it makes them feel alive again.

Ten Principles of Conservative Activism

Sebastian Morello July 15, 2022

Remember, you are not trying to establish an environment of tolerance and mutual-understanding. Like Isabella and Ferdinand, you are trying to recover the territory. Treat the new Left like people who hate you, because they do.

A Taste of Our Own Medicine: China Turns Our Rhetoric Against Us

David Boos July 8, 2022

With Russia and China increasingly adopting Western ideological talking points and using them against us, it is time for us to question our commitment to a rhetoric that emulates the effectiveness of socialist countries.

Sonnet Form Nixed from Exams: “Product of White Western Culture”

David Boos June 9, 2022

University of Salford has removed sonnets from its creative writing program exams in a bid to “decolonise the curriculum,” since they “tend to be products of white western culture.”

Redeeming Our Asymmetric Culture War

Harrison Pitt May 24, 2022

Today, the cultural warfare is nothing if not asymmetric. History and culture are important enough to merit a lively debate, but the one-sided onslaught on everything from Western art to our national heroes, thunders Murray, should not be indulged for a moment longer.

The Wrath of Lesser Sons: What Motivates the Crusade Against Our Culture

David Boos May 9, 2022

Our dreary present, in its moralizing arrogance, believes it can judge countless generations of our ancestors, while refusing to even try and grasp the spiritual richness of our past.

On Acedia: How to Save the West by Fighting Off the Demons of Weariness

David Boos May 1, 2022

The notion that there are limits to our growth is holding the West in a psychological stranglehold. Whereas other civilizations are thriving, the West suffers from a weariness that stifles any belief in further progress. This weariness has had a name for almost 2,000 years: Acedia.

The Nine Worthies and the Present Age

Carlos Perona Calvete April 16, 2022

What the nine worthies provided was a thematically unified account, a sweeping narrative, from Homer through the Bible and into Christendom, which western Europeans could use to understand and in some wise enshrine the canon of their history. The question we may venture to ask, in whose answer we might come to understand our era and its place, is whether it is possible to discern modernity’s worthies.

Defending Camelot

Charles A. Coulombe March 9, 2022

The Arthurian legend, despite attempts to use it for other purposes, is a parable of a militant Catholicism that saved Western civilisation.

Tag: Western Civilization

In Defence of National Conservatism

Why Bother?

Ten Principles of Conservative Activism

A Taste of Our Own Medicine: China Turns Our Rhetoric Against Us

Sonnet Form Nixed from Exams: “Product of White Western Culture”

Redeeming Our Asymmetric Culture War

The Wrath of Lesser Sons: What Motivates the Crusade Against Our Culture

On Acedia: How to Save the West by Fighting Off the Demons of Weariness

The Nine Worthies and the Present Age

Defending Camelot

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