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.”

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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.

All Cathedrals, I have realized, have a smell, a sound, and a feel that binds them to one another; it’s a congruity of design that unites believers wherever they go.

With the buffer zones, no one will see the reality, no one will hear the reality, and no one will speak the reality of abortion.

The problem with ‘mental health’ is that it evaluates thought as though it were a world purely of inner sensations.

Tolkien can teach the English a lot about how to make their country their home again.

So long as the Mother Continent is divorced from herself, her daughters, including the United States, cannot be healthy.

Chekhov once said that literature was his mistress and medicine his lawful wedded wife, and that when he tired of

Paul VI seemed to suggest that a love of the Church’s ancient liturgy is actually a moral failing.