The Norwegian tale of a young man who fell asleep on Christmas Eve and woke on Epiphany to recount the miraculous sights he had seen.

When a culture loses the capacity for faith at all, be it religious or secular, and falls into a pit of relativism, it produces scientists all too willing to yield to the shrill demands of noisy, impassioned political activists.

On a single silent night when all was still and all was bright, Christian Germans and Christian Brits sang together and then climbed out of their trenches to greet each other—and celebrate the birth of Christ.

If anyone wishes to conquer the giants of their own vices, they must, like Don Quixote, take up the lance, the shield, draw down the visor, and mount Rocinante.

This oratorio, a familiar part of both the Christmas and Easter seasons, has a fascinating history.

Now is the perfect time to approach Dickens’ classic, with its perennial themes of repentance and generosity. 

Fairy parties and flying reindeer are not things out of which eventually we must grow; they belong to the realm inhabited only by those who are mature enough to understand the world for what it is.

We must rediscover the principles that—in as many forms as there are Western nations—founded each of our countries and the West as a whole.

The environmentalist’s claim that man is nature’s enemy undermines any reason to steward it in the first place. To care for something, one must love it; one must feel that it belongs to them and them to it.

It is as if, in the boomer-con’s mind, liberalism is a ‘nice principle’ that ought to temper the ‘nasty but necessary principle’ of conservatism. Young-cons, however, don’t identify liberalism with niceness at all.

Faust’s salvation, as with humanity’s, comes only in time.

Irish cultural identity has been reduced to athletic prowess, drink, rebel songs, and revolutionary grievances.

President Milei offers a message of hope and a plan to restore Argentina.

The beauty of The Bard has not dimmed despite the passage of four centuries.

Pope Francis’ off-the-cuff remarks are a significant part of his teaching, and as such, they cannot be ignored.

I knew my trip to Ukraine would be memorable. I did not suspect that my companion, Charles Coulombe, would be one of the reasons.

Hunting is a glorious renewal of a covenant with the land, that common setting that binds a rural community.

After Tuđman’s death, Croatian patriotic enthusiasm was very quickly exposed to scorn and stigmatization.

A look at the origins of Luciatåg: Swedish folklore and the 4th century martyrdom of St. Lucia of Syracuse

Depriving the ‘Blob’ of its power and influence is a necessary precondition for national renewal—but more is needed.

Both Kirk and Scruton teach us what it means to be really human.

The interpersonal relationship between philosophers is irreplaceable.

Today’s Solidarity Movement in South Africa is inspired by lessons from the past.

Why should belonging to the majority ethnic group of a given place be a disadvantage?

Antonia Padoani Bembo’s compositions sometimes sound thoroughly French, at other times purely Italian.

Whilst Paris is surrendering to wokeism, a new generation of formidable defenders of tradition is arising in Lyon.

Once the site of one of the most significant revolts against the French Revolution, today Lyon has become the centre of the right-wing reaction to wokeism.

Kirk’s conservatism was the conservatism of loss—not of rout or retreat, and certainly not despair, but one that treasures what is gone as well as what we have. 

America must return to the idea of American Exceptionalism, or it will fail.

“Antisemitism is the best warning sign that we can have of a threat to liberal civilization.”—Lord Sacks