Alexandre Lacassagne, the French forensic pathologist who published a book on tattoos in 1881, would have been astonished at, and puzzled by, the explosion of elaborate and professional tattoos in the general population in the last three decades.
People often go to considerable trouble to make themselves ugly, or as ugly as possible. Nor is this simply a trait of rebellious youth that is trying to assert its independence and that will take the easiest route available to shock its elders. Now, perhaps for the first time, the ugliness of youthful rebellion has become inscribed deeply into society, virtually as the norm.
Jorge González-Gallarza explores the legacy of the intellectual godfather of Latin America’s new Right, Olavo de Carvalho. While his online popularity was dismissed by those who would refuse to engage with him, he reached millions more than were possible from within the ivory tower and he drew a blueprint of how new institutions can be built when the old can’t be reconquered.
A tactical choice has been made as to who pays the price for multiculturalism. One would hardly offer up one’s own daughter, but a vulnerable working class girl? Perhaps one might just look the other way.
Portugal’s post-revolutionary malaise is a warning to the West. The Carnation Revolution promised freedom but, through left-wing cultural hegemony and the destruction of national capacity, delivered dependence, parochialism, and poverty.
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.
2025 marks the 75th year since the inception of the Schuman Plan. It was said that Schuman “didn’t really understand the treaty which bore his name.” Indeed, this is the intended strategy of architects of Euro-federalism: make the structural process so byzantine that few, especially the population at large, can understand what is happening. Technocracy, rather than democracy, is the project’s driving force.
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.
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?
We are a strange people, we descendants of the 17th and 18th century French pioneers in North America.
The Flemish expressionists provide an example of reconciling tradition and experiment.
Seasonal festivals have disappeared because modern man’s experience of food is tied to the supermarket.
Reading Javier Marías’ Berta Isla, I’d finally escaped my hospital bed and entered into a terrain where needles and IVs weren’t welcome.
We must fight to save education in the West. But what, precisely, is the education we wish to save?
Anyone whose activity is a relief to the public purse should be entitled to a reduction of his own contribution to it.
Becoming Christmas is living in the knowledge, as St. John writes, that “as he is, so also are we in this world.”
Check out the new podcast and Substack about finding transcendence in the pulpy medium of comics.
In each imperial or royal court—as well as in that of the popes—Christmas and its Twelve Days were a major celebration.
To recognize enchantment is to apprehend and acknowledge the workings of grace in the movements of history.
Blessed Karl was permeated with piety and imbued with that virtue.
Where is Home, ye wayfarer? A response to Audrey Unverferth
It is man’s nature to make art of nature.
Your gift giving can support worthy causes, spread beauty, and aid the festivity of this season.
We all believe in myths, but we have some choice over which ones.
The cooperation between politicians and scientists easily undermines science and promotes the pretence of knowledge.
Budapest is light and it is magic, but it is not my home.
We are here to make a film on the European legacy in this wilderness of South Africa. What we got was more than that—an adventure.
Being on the Right can easily become a matter of what to oppose, rather than what to uphold.
There are countless reasons not to fall into despair.
The churches Serra founded represent the last reach of the old order in the New World.
