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Issue 34

Spring 2025

The Schuman Plan: Toward a European Federation

2025 marks the 75th year since the inception of the Schuman Plan. It was said that Schuman “didn’t really understand the treaty which bore his name.” Indeed, this is the intended strategy of architects of Euro-federalism: make the structural process so byzantine that few, especially the population at large, can understand what is happening. Technocracy, rather than democracy, is the project’s driving force.

City of (B)light

Kuper’s way of commending Paris in its current direction ultimately reflects the naiveties and delusions of those who set it on this trajectory in the first place. There is a belief that urban planning projects can serve as a way to tame and pacify the city’s riot-ready ethnic youth. It takes a certain level of insular Parisian elitism to believe that radicalized hoodlums, whether into vandalism or Islamism, will be assuaged by city libraries, greenery, and sporting grounds.

Imre Dózsa (1941-2024), Hungarian Ballet Master

Bidding farewell to the doyen of Hungarian ballet in the Balaton fog seemed fitting: as if the poignant goodbye had been held on the final set of a grand stage, and he played some kind of mystical figure.

ESSAYS, REVIEWS, and MORE

ESSAYS

A Nation Adrift: 51 Years after Portugal’s Carnation Revolution

Portugal’s post-revolutionary malaise is a warning to the West. The Carnation Revolution promised freedom but, through left-wing cultural hegemony and the destruction of national capacity, delivered dependence, parochialism, and poverty.

Afrikaners: A Link Between Africa and the West

Afrikaner culture is a unique nexus between the West and Africa. If Afrikaners have no future in Africa, then our culture does not have any future at all. However, a similar existential threat awaits us should we stay in Africa but neglect or reject our Western roots. It is precisely the preservation of this combination of two heritages which has made Afrikaners who we are.

The New Iconoclasm

Today’s iconoclasts seek little more than a photograph in the newspaper, if not a prison sentence—think of the media-ready antics of Just Stop Oil, throwing soup on Van Gogh or spraying Stonehenge with orange paint. Any attention they might lend to their cause is smothered in a self-serving narcissistic love of the image of themselves performing destruction.

Keeping Christmas All the Year

Becoming Christmas is living in the knowledge, as St. John writes, that “as he is, so also are we in this world.”

Midwits: The True Enemies of Counter-Revolution

The Midwit Meme claims that the uneducated and the very educated are natural allies. The real problem is found with those towards the centre of the spectrum, the slightly educated lot.

What the Bronze Age Pervert Can Teach Us

Conservatives shouldn’t be afraid of this movement despite its obvious paganism.

The Planned Obsolescence of Deep England

To achieve total commodification, sentimentality, difference, and tradition must be eradicated in favour of seamless efficiency.

Russell Kirk’s Book of Love

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.

REVIEWS

Art Beyond Progressivism: A Review of “The Exhibition”

This group of artists rejects postmodernism. But what values do they affirm?

Art in a Free Society: Anna Netrebko Triumphs in La Scala’s La Forza del Destino

To say Netrebko is a star is a marked understatement.

Midwinter Warmth

Chilcott’s Christmas Oratorio seems old and yet new, traditional and yet contemporary.

“Opt for the Great Happiness”: A Timely Blueprint for Family Revival

Eduard Habsburg contends that the family is the place where love, life, and faith are lived out in their fullest forms.

A Christian Call to Re-Enchant the World

Rod Dreher's Living in Wonder outlines an escape from the paradigm of modernity that has painted the whole world grey.

A Spaniard’s Paean to Trajan, Romania, and Latin Civilization

“The Mystery of Romania: By its history faithful to Rome, by religion faithful to Byzantium; by its language tied to the West and by its customs to the East.”

Why Modernism Failed

As long as there is a viewing public that can witness beauty, there will be a desire for tradition.

New Right, New Fights

Up From Conservatism gives scorching diagnostics of a stale conservatism—and offers some radical prescriptions.

INTERVIEWS

The Monarch: a Lasting Symbol of National Unity

"We are facing a genuine crisis of civilisation—not only in Brazil but also in Europe, in America, and across the globe. This is a moment of polarisation, a crisis of values and principles. It represents a clash of belief systems."
An Interview with HIRH Rafael of Orléans-Bragança, Prince Imperial of Brazil

Reality Check | Ep. 24 | Architectural Modernism is Dead

James McCrery discusses the journey from modernist architecture’s stark rationalism to the revival of classical tradition.

Post-Apocalyptic Pagan Nationalism with a Christian Eye

A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth: "Orthodoxy, unlike much Western Christianity, has not bent with the times, so ... we have to build communities, even in our own homes, and try to hold to those values. It’s hard. Building communities with others will be the key. But Christians now in the West are like those in the early centuries: we are minorities in a ‘secular’ world. We have to live as such."

“If we want secure borders in Europe, we need stable countries outside Europe.” An Interview with Ferenc Almássy

If we help Christians to stay in their countries, we are helping peace and prosperity. This stability is also good for Europe: if countries are more stable and secure, fewer people will want to emigrate.

Interview• Media

Reality Check | Ep. 20 | Creative Minorities: The Future of Conservatives in France

In this episode, Jan interviews Guillaume de Thieulloy, a prominent French conservative thinker and publisher, to delve into the pressing issues facing France today.

“The culture war is no sideshow; it is a fight for Western civilisation”: An Interview with Eric Kaufmann

Woke is one of the most important developments of our age. It is upending culture and institutions, and remaking politics.

If Javier Milei is successful, the world will talk about the Argentinean miracle”: An Interview with Marcelo Duclos

When madness is law, common sense is a revolution.

“Man is not a replaceable and interchangeable consumer product”: An Interview with Renaud Camus

A wide-ranging discussion about migration, politics, the media, and being silenced with the author of The Great Replacement.

COMMENTARY

The Virtue That Enables All Others: A Conversation with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Western civilization is the greatest civilization that ever was, and we need the courage to say that and the courage to try and restore it.”

Expanding Our Reach

As we prepare to start 2025, we are expanding this project by creating specialized divisions for our print and online products.

The Enterprise State

The conservative reluctance to wield state power must be ditched entirely if we are to save our nations.

Trump and the Elite Replacement Paradox

Trump seeks to create a new intellectual, moral, and business elite to lead a strong United States.

TRIBUTES

Alain Delon, the Last Leopard

Alain Delon was a real man, the likes of whom we are incapable of producing today, and that's what makes France's tears so bitter.

The Last of the Greatest Generation: Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson (1922-2024)

With Anderson’s passing, a great American war hero and triple ace pilot has left us.

The Last Prince: Death and Hope in Il Gattopardo

This year, on May 10th, we lost a gentleman. He was not only a brilliant musicologist and Italian cultural figure, but also the most gifted ambassador of his adoptive father’s work.

Sir David Amess (1952-2021)

We are poorer for his absence—now that we no longer have in our halls of power this uncomplicated, good-natured, and principled man who had an irrepressibly sunny disposition.

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