Western countries have finally started taking action to limit the influence of Confucius Institutes—or offer alternatives.
An isolationist stance would mean a diminished United States and a more dominant China.
Some conservatives may sniff and say that there is more to a country’s welfare than its growth rate. They are right. But without prosperity, life is to varying degrees unpleasant.
Christian meditation must be rehabilitated if the modern crisis of the Church is to be overcome.
The Church reacted against intellectual currents with a rationalistic Thomism in which the mystical dimension of reality was marginalized.
Mystical union with God is the axis around which the Christian life turns.
Profaning sacred spaces for a quick buck caused Our Lord Jesus Christ to unleash His righteous fury.
Andrew Tate is not an ally in the culture wars.
Our duty as Catholics is to pray for the Pope; but, to do so truly, we must not blind ourselves to his faults.
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.
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.
