Quote of the Week: Samuel Coleridge, “Letters on the Spaniards”
“That there is an individual spirit that breaths through a whole people, is participated in by all, though not by all alike; a spirit which…
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Quote of the Week: Guillaume Faye, “Archeofuturism”
“Moreover, as the philosopher Raymond Ruyer, detested by the left-bank intelligentsia, foretold in his two important works, Les nuisances idéologiques and Les cents prochains siècles,…
Quote of the Week: Robert Nisbet, “The Quest For Community”
“The intensity of theoretical interest in the family has curiously enough arisen in direct proportion to the decline of the family’s basic institutional importance to…
Poem: “Modern Life or Modern Death?”
They stare at Windows all the livelong day, Yet breathe in no fresh air. Despite new means of contact now in play, Communication’s rare. They…
Quote of the Week: Bill Cunningham, “New York”
“Then the army came along, this is 1951, I was drafted, well they were appalled that I would go and their investment would be on…
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…
Quote of the Week: James Kalb, “Against Inclusiveness”
“When a tendency has gone to extremes, it is most evident that something must be done to oppose it. Opposing one aspect of it may…
Quote of the Week: Patrick Buchanan, “1992 Republican National Convention Speech”
“There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind…
Quote of the Week: W. Somerset Maugham, “The Razor’s Edge”
“It is very difficult to know people and I don’t think one can ever really know any but one’s own countrymen. For men and women…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Uses of Pessimism”
“I am aware that I belong to a kind, and that this kind has a place in nature. I am also aware that I depend…