Aesthetic Knowledge
Aesthetic subjectivism, or “relativism,” is the view that beauty is solely in the eye of the beholder. The term “relativism” is sometimes used to indicate…
Beauty
Poetry by Mark Richardson: “Dear Sisters”
I know that you can wear a smiling face, that is no true measure of your inner grace. Men meeting men take care not to…
2017 Symposium – Richard Cocks
Philosophy and The Crisis of the Modern World To find a way out of the current confusions and rifts in modern Western societies, and for…
2016 Symposium – Kristor J. Lawson
The Social Contract with the Logos Society as manifest in all its organs and instruments – including the individual – is mediated by a web…
2016 Symposium – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony: Art Transcending Politics The topic is not only compound but complex, associating itself with numerous difficulties. The term transcendence, for example, is…
Quote of the Week: Adam L. Tate (on Nathaniel Tucker), “Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals”
“Moral behavior, a central component of society, rested on the strength of the will. Tucker called the human will ‘the master of DESTINY.’ For Tucker,…
Quote of the Week: Mary Eliza Haweis, “The Art of Beauty”
“Alas, when people complain of men not marrying (even they who are able), they forget how little women offer in exchange for all they get…
Quote of the Week: Till Kinzel, Introduction, “Scholia to an Implicit Text”
“Man is an animal that cannot find restfulness in this life, since he cannot just live in a state of self-oblivion within the passing of…
Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Steven Curtis Chapman – Fingerprints of God
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Luke Torrisi. The notes were produced for a broadcast of Monday,…
Quote of the Week: Mark Butterworth, “I Like The White World”
“Is it really possible for a man to go through life, all its tedium, annoyances, conflicts, humiliating compromises, frustrations, and disappointments without the necessary relief…