When the Japanese arrived in Hawaii, they had no problem identifying the local kami, or ‘spirits,’ of the nation. We explore the importance of national definition.
What is widely termed ‘trophy hunting’ is one of those very rare things in this fallen and troubled world: a near-unqualified good.
Strauss revitalized the study of political philosophy and questioned the premises of progressivist historicism.
The mythic framing of the climate revolution finds its heart deep in the symbolism of a conflict between man and nature under Heaven.
What critics miss about the Muslim-turned-atheist’s dramatic conversion
Rivera deliberately chose the moment of creation as a subject matter, recognizing its revolutionary potential.
The flickering torch illuminating the pathway towards the True, the Good, and the Beautiful must not expire on our watch.
We are a patriotic and freedom-loving people, and we cannot endure any more of this.
“The part that we live is really small. All the rest of existence is not life but merely time.” People with no hobbies read Seneca’s words as a kind of profit and loss spreadsheet.
International cities are organised in a cabal to euthanise the antiquated nation-states of the West along with the international Westphalian system.
We must counter AI by framing education as pilgrimage, a transformative and embodied journey.
Nogueira believed the future would be shaped by great nations and that ethnically pluralistic polities—empires—were culturally and civilisationally superior to homogeneous ones.
Housman was a singular creature, a noble-minded nihilist of intense feeling.
Nogueira stands among that now lost class of great European statesmen.
The Old and New Left share the same essential disdain for national, cultural, religious, and civilizational differences.
Marked by historical events of such magnitude as the two world wars, Tolkien and other Christian intellectuals of his day grappled with profound questions about the fate of the world.
Social eating, with implicit rules for the sake of harmony, creates a tender window to the unique human person.
The Bible reminds us that when the storm comes—and inevitably it will—we can look into the waves and the darkness, or we can look to Christ.
The greatest Catholic writers of the 20th century drew on the deep riches of the liturgy to speak to the secular age.
Reports of a Christian satyr coming to St. Anthony for guidance tell us something about Halloween—about the ‘fairy-folk’ and those fiends whose form may yet be redeemed.
While we need not succumb to Adorno’s demoralizing miserabilism, we might agree with him that modern life is profoundly damaged in ways both subtle and overt.
University campuses are merely magnifying glasses of ongoing, wider societal dilemmas.
Malory, like Galahad, understands an important truth: that the ultimate end of the political common good is the spiritual common good.
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.
Media-friendly illegal immigrants [are] quick to make a practice of blaming France and the French should anything unfortunate befall them. …. One thinks of burglars who sue a landlord because they break a leg in his poorly lit stairwell.
FROM THE FALL 2023 PRINT EDITION: In crossing the threshold into Middle-earth, I stepped into a moral cosmos unlike the relativist world in which I resided.
The complex and controversial legacy of Miklós Horthy defies translation.
VOX’s Jorge Buxade argued that the state cannot exercise a power not expressly recognized by law.
A look at three representatives of Spanish conservatism: Donoso Cortés, Ramiro de Maeztu, and Elias de Tejada.
The monstrosities in Israel crowd out moral ambivalence, but there are those whose bloodlust was merely whetted.
