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Street Fighting Men

Street Fighting Men

Rather than being opposed to the establishment, these activist foot soldiers provide the street muscle, fierce passion, and raised voices that bureaucrats dare not show.

Alberto M. Fernandez
September 21, 2023
Funders Over Buyers: Control vs. Community

Funders Over Buyers: Control vs. Community

In contrast to ESG-promoting stakeholder capitalism, coherent conservatism is simply the politics that emerges when control is not the priority; it is the politics that does not seek to break down community in order to use its parts.

Carlos Perona Calvete
September 20, 2023
Into the Woods

Into the Woods

Somehow, some way, stewardship of the forest and the rest of the natural environment must be snatched from the ranks of the stupid and insane.

Charles A. Coulombe
September 20, 2023
AI and the End of Wisdom

AI and the End of Wisdom

In undermining our very human nature, and neglecting our unique ability to seek and come into union with truth, AI will leave us not only uninspired but undignified.

Esmé Partridge
September 19, 2023
The Digital Apocalypse Is Here: Reading Anton Barba-Kay on the Meaning of Online Culture

The Digital Apocalypse Is Here: Reading Anton Barba-Kay on the Meaning of Online Culture

Digital culture tells you that your will is, or should be, unencumbered by history, materiality, or any unchosen obligation.

Rod Dreher
September 19, 2023
The Abuses of Literacy: Paulo Freire’s Marxist Redefinition of Knowledge as Ignorance

The Abuses of Literacy: Paulo Freire’s Marxist Redefinition of Knowledge as Ignorance

His methods of learning, known as ‘critical pedagogy,’ are now ubiquitous in teachers’ training, making Freire one of the most influential men you’ve never heard of.

Steven Tucker
September 18, 2023
Multicultural Malice: A Warning Against Good Faith

Multicultural Malice: A Warning Against Good Faith

Race-baiting activists claim that the story of Britain is nothing but a litany of racist horrors, yet they also argue that black people have been the leading characters of this story from the very beginning. Which is it?

Harrison Pitt
September 17, 2023
Nordic Conservative Homecoming

Nordic Conservative Homecoming

The extraordinary story of Nordic conservatism is traced back to the Viking age.

Dag August Schmedling Dramer
September 17, 2023
AI and an Economy Without Consultants

AI and an Economy Without Consultants

In the short term, AI could hit the consultant sector hardest—conservatives should be thinking about how a post-intermediary economy relates to their principles.

Carlos Perona Calvete
September 16, 2023
Ratzinger and Augustine

Ratzinger and Augustine

In Augustine, Ratzinger found a thinker who believed that the dimensions of faith and reason “should not be separated or placed in opposition; rather, they must always go hand in hand.”

André P. DeBattista
September 16, 2023
Indigenizing AI: Technology and Locality

Indigenizing AI: Technology and Locality

An optimistic model for integrating AI in ways that do not subordinate local needs and cultures, but instead empowers them, could constitute a major plank of future political platforms.

Carlos Perona Calvete
September 15, 2023
A Hidden Life Revealed

A Hidden Life Revealed

A Catholic life can only remain hidden for so long; every Catholic will face a moment when their faith will demand public action, whatever the cost.

Fr. Benedict Kiely
September 13, 2023
Mysticism as the Foundation of Philosophy

Mysticism as the Foundation of Philosophy

The assumption at the heart of philosophy is that the world is in some mysterious way a divine communication.

Sebastian Morello
September 12, 2023
Learning From ‘Illiberal Democracy’

Learning From ‘Illiberal Democracy’

So, what happens when the ‘liberal’ undermines the ‘democracy’?

Rod Dreher
September 10, 2023
<strong>Vivaldi & Others</strong>: Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti—Two Very Different Geniuses

Vivaldi & Others: Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti—Two Very Different Geniuses

Domenico’s last work is a bittersweet farewell to earthly life and perhaps a reconciliation with his demanding father, Alessandro, who would surely have smiled approvingly.

Kees Vlaardingerbroek
September 10, 2023
Can a Christian Care About Demographics?

Can a Christian Care About Demographics?

Christianity envisions an order of distinct nations and peoples without fetishizing race as a point of dogmatic principle.

Harrison Pitt
September 4, 2023
The Third Man Factor, or “Who is That on the Other Side of You?”

The Third Man Factor, or “Who is That on the Other Side of You?”

“Suddenly there was a third climber next to me … just out of my field of vision. I could not see the figure … but I was certain there was someone there. I needed no proof,” Reinhold Messner recalled his encounter.

Carlos Perona Calvete
September 3, 2023
The Pandemic Lockdowns: This Century’s Sacking of the Monasteries

The Pandemic Lockdowns: This Century’s Sacking of the Monasteries

Despite talk of the pandemic being ‘unprecedented,’ at least one dimension of the lockdowns did have precedent.

Andrew Doran
September 3, 2023
Lifted Level with the Skies?

Lifted Level with the Skies?

If we do not wish for our reality to become a boundless, shapeshifting simulacrum, we may just need to rebuild the entire modern worldview from the ground up.

Michael W. Weyns
September 2, 2023
“Lost by Something”: Hemingway and Abortion

“Lost by Something”: Hemingway and Abortion

In Hills Like White Elephants Hemingway immortalized a conversation not just of that time, but of all times: a man trying to persuade a woman who is already a mother that she is not yet a mother.

Jonathon Van Maren
August 30, 2023
Re-Building the Future: The Case of Cayalá

Re-Building the Future: The Case of Cayalá

Cayalá should encourage both our traditionalist and voluntarist instincts. Its prosperity is a testament to traditional design principles, while the speed with which it was built shows us what is possible.

Carlos Perona Calvete
August 28, 2023
Percival’s Sister and Predatory Feminism

Percival’s Sister and Predatory Feminism

Percival’s sister’s bleeding out is instructive. It stands for the scattering of energies released from their proper, ordered course within the organism, in order that another may feed on them.

Carlos Perona Calvete
August 26, 2023
Uncertainty: To Hope’s End and Heart’s Breaking

Uncertainty: To Hope’s End and Heart’s Breaking

Uncertainty faces us more regularly than certainty. What are we to make of this? 

Julian Kwasniewski
August 26, 2023
<em>The Swiss Family Robinson</em>: A Return to the Classics

The Swiss Family Robinson: A Return to the Classics

As in most of the great classics, the essential nature of gratitude in difficult circumstances is constantly emphasized.

Jonathon Van Maren
August 24, 2023
Can the European Union Be Saved?

Can the European Union Be Saved?

The fact that demonstrating pride in one’s country is considered ‘fascist’ speaks to the utter insanity of the current ethos.

Charles A. Coulombe
August 23, 2023
Welcome to Ireland, the ‘Woke’ Capital of Europe

Welcome to Ireland, the ‘Woke’ Capital of Europe

When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. Ireland is now paralyzed by an involuntary expulsion of ‘woke’ air that managed to travel 4,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.

John Mac Ghlionn
August 22, 2023
Heaven Over Budapest: A Sign of the Times in the Hungarian Capital

Heaven Over Budapest: A Sign of the Times in the Hungarian Capital

This is what it means to have a leader who believes that the faith that was inseparable from the founding of the nation is vital to its survival.

Rod Dreher
August 21, 2023
Libertarian ‘Conservatism’: A Trojan Horse

Libertarian ‘Conservatism’: A Trojan Horse

If we each operate as insulated, atomic individuals, with our own private concepts of human flourishing, then the great work of civilisation-building is impossible.

Sebastian Morello
August 21, 2023
<strong>Vivaldi & Others</strong>: Agostino Steffani—Missionary Clergyman and Visionary Composer

Vivaldi & Others: Agostino Steffani—Missionary Clergyman and Visionary Composer

Steffani’s Stabat mater is the resounding counterpart to Bernini’s overwhelming “L’Estasi di Santa Teresa d’Avila,” even though that sculpture was created almost 80 years earlier.

Kees Vlaardingerbroek
August 20, 2023
Hannah Arendt and the Disappearance of Authority

Hannah Arendt and the Disappearance of Authority

The disappearance of the fear of hell, Arendt tells us, leads directly to the institutionalization of immorality, and the transformation of the deviant will of a Hitler or a Stalin into state policy.

Robert Lazu Kmita
August 19, 2023
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