FROM THE FALL 2023 PRINT EDITION: Houellebecq is a dystopian visionary who has discovered that reality has overtaken him.
In stark contrast to the way Camus has been mis-portrayed by others, readers will encounter a heroic “committed opponent of conspiratorial thinking of all kinds.”
If we consider the origin myth of sumo, we may reflect on how the war between the celestial and earthly realms was tamed by the sport and turned into an arena structured by higher principles.
Liberalism leaves our cultural traditions and moral life at the mercy of whatever happens to result from the totality of individual human wills.
It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the observable obsessive impulse to destroy Pius’ reputation is driven more by ideology than by any objective historical inquiry.
Poles have learned the hard way that there are no holidays from history.
CBDC is a paradox: it is a money based solely on trust that is structurally set up to destroy that trust. If people lose trust in the currency, the government would lose any control it had over the economy.
Against the endless liberation of the individual and the atomization of society, conservatives must uphold a concept of man as part of society with a shared identity and a shared ethos.
We have not been gradually losing our rights, freedoms, and political power. In truth, we never really had them to begin with, for they were never grounded in true political authority.
The combination of continuity and change has always been central to the genius of coronations, reassuring us that the past is being honoured, yet reaffirming the new order of things.
Liberalism inherited a Christian psychology but, having jettisoned the Rock of Ages, built its political theory upon the sand.
To the extent that America and its allies have an interest in an unthreatened NATO, a tranquil East Asia, and nuclear non-proliferation, they also have an interest in Ukrainian victory.
The truth appears to be that Irish Catholicism was easy to abandon, because it seemed so hard to love.
Leftists who claim Orwell as their own would likely be surprised to discover that he was very socially conservative.
Fr. Tiso’s career, for all its failings, was a catalyst in the formation of the modern Slovak state.
Those who can see past their prejudices will discern in Twombly’s work a revolutionary aesthetic experience, where movement flows hot and red in a thrilling abstraction of Italian futurism.
We are the first to live in a completely new era that no longer wants anything to do with the thinking of the ancestors, but is based entirely on a new spirit and new values.
If the most dramatic change brought by mass migration is seen in European ethno-cultural identity, the most concrete, immediate, and undeniable consequence is the rise in violence and crime.
The sad fact is that the Church has lost faith in the Gospel. That is why it seeks to promote a new gospel of inclusion, equality, and environmentalism. The best way to survive the synod is simply to ignore it.
The integralism of post-liberal Catholics risks reducing to an abstractionist exercise what is known by experience and cultural induction, thereby perpetuating the age of ideological squabbles which they ought to be repudiating in entirety.
Conservatives are about to realise that they have inherited an untenable philosophy for the world in which we find ourselves. On its current course, the Anglo-American tradition is doomed to fail.
The circumstances in Slovakia demand steady leadership, ideally with support from the populace.
The focus on values over virtues has led to a relativistic and superficial understanding of human flourishing.
“I would never leave France, but I understand why people feel this way. Nobody wants to be robbed. Nobody wants to be raped.”
Today’s prototypical Westerner is unlikely to think of nationality when he thinks of Judaism. In many cases, one even encounters the denial of Judaism’s national character.
Balázs Orbán’s The Hungarian Way of Strategy is now published in French. What can it offer the French reader?
For those in denial, an immigrant is just a generic human unit who brings no cultural baggage with him.
By highlighting how the size, type, and style of constructions can all fit, Krier shows us the way (post)modern architecture and urbanism are based on the perverse thrill of mismatch and contradiction.
If someone in the audience kept talking after Corelli had already started playing, he would immediately lower his violin until the room had become completely silent. If the talking continued, he would refuse to play at all.
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.
