A consequence of Pergolesi’s posthumous fame: publishers sold works by other composers under Pergolesi’s commercially attractive name.

We must recover a society suffused with the wonder that nourishes the soul.

We are facing the possible tragedy of Europe’s demographic transformation into little more than the northernmost outpost of Islam—a tragedy which Pope Francis seems all too happy to embrace.

Lenin created one of the most brutal, destructive, and barbaric totalitarian regimes ever.

The founder of Western philosophy was persecuted by the oligarchy-sponsored anti-family egalitarian atheism of his day.

I headed to the city of David on Christmas morning. Its streets were even more somber than those of Jerusalem.

The New Right must be careful when playing up the populist rhetoric, lest it fall into Marxist dialectics.

If the state is the author of our rights and has the power to grant them to us, then they are not rights, but permissions that the state could revoke at any moment.

Yeats’ ghostly philosophy became a central theme in much of his most significant poetry. Many of his key works cannot be properly understood without knowledge of it.

When a civilization is on its deathbed, its people cry out one last time for myth and enchantment.

The tragic story behind this Christmas carol is a stark reminder of what happened in Ukraine.

It is up to us to carry on the fight for goodness, truth, and beauty that Scruton fought so well.

The “EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities” makes reducing CO2 emissions the central criterion for accessing liquidity.

Conti possessed an amazing sense of melody and a deep understanding of humanity’s dark aspects.

Aragorn, for so long the wandering heir, wins at last and begins the restoration of a world wrecked by evil.

Dry January joins the cohort of practices recommended by the progressive virtue leagues working relentlessly to establish a safe, green world as sad as a rainy day.

Freedom of religion is about the freedom to seek the truth.

Tolkien shows us the similarity between machinery and magic, which both point to the desire for power.

In the King’s speech, we hear faint resonances of the Christian and Neoplatonic idea of harmony.

There is something uncanny about the evident humanness of an old artifact—and something comforting as well.

The woke style is a mawkish tribute to an imagined future in which ugliness and mediocrity slouch supreme.

The family recipe book is a vital part of the conservative cultural enterprise.

Our meditation for Christmas is the simple question of who and what we celebrate on Christmas Day, why it brings true and lasting joy, and why it changes everything.

In the current pontificate, power is exercised in a manner reminiscent of a banana republic.

To rebel against modernity may involve the overthrow of the modern in the interest of reviving something older.

Europe does not share the American ‘faith and flag’ correlation between religion and politics.

“It is Holy Night and there will be no shooting.” The soldiers agreed.

Cultural conservatism—especially the traditional view on familial piety—is a condition of the Gospel’s intelligibility.

It is frustrating, maddening even, for anyone who loves Vivaldi’s music that basic data on his development as a composer and musician is lacking to this day.

Iceland’s Christmas folklore includes the Ogress Grýla, the thirteen Yule Lads, and a giant cat.