A Manifesto of Neo-Romanticism
He is thinking: “See how God writes straigh on crooked lines.”1 What realistic form can a manifesto of neo-romanticism take in a positivistic age? How…
Homer
2017 Symposium – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Identity: The Future of a Paradox When Publius Virgilius Maro, more familiarly Virgil, accepted the commission from Augustus, formerly Gaius Octavius, to create an…
The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner [Part III]
The BBC obituary for Venner begins with the following sentence: “Dominique Venner, the far-right French essayist who shot himself before the altar of Notre Dame…
The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner [Part II]
The limitations in Venner’s thought once established, it becomes possible to set forth in parallel an apology for his philosophical contribution. Venner’s active participation in…
René Guénon and Eric Voegelin on the Degeneration of Right Order [Part II]
I Guénon, Voegelin, and the Modern Crisis. The concupiscent subject’s response to the Siren Song of the ecumene, to conquer and possess it, qualifies as…
Classicism: Its Theory and Practice
I. The Question Anyone possessed with a literary enthusiasm has read a poem written in the last half-century or so that made them wince with…