Conclusions from The History of Anticulture
We wish all our readers a very happy Labour Day! What follows is a translation of the last seven pages of Krzysztof Karoń’s first book…
Human Condition
Imagination, Innocence and Postmodernism
Maybe from all your mental somersaults will come a system that will satisfy you in the realm of pure signs, but it will be a…
Past and Future Gulags
Vladimir Solovyov’s insightful The Crisis of Western Philosophy can enlighten us today as to the importance of re-telling history to educate subsequent generations. With its…
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…
Suicide of the West: Towards a Universal Homogeneous Super-State
This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 23 November 2018 by Prof. Ted Sadler, as part of the…
Scientism, Existential Reflection and God
I Scientism, Science and Technology Scientism is not science. Instead, scientism is an ideology that reduces man’s hope and aspirations to the scientific method. Scientism…
Marxism and Secularism’s Cultural Overreach
I God is the “Opiate of the People” For Karl Marx, God is what he calls the “opiate of the people.” That is, belief in…
Sam Harris: The Unconverted
René Girard argues that all the great tales are conversion stories; the sinner redeemed. This is why Dostoevsky novels are ultimately uplifting. As someone commented,…
Poetry by Carl Hildebrand: “The Trothing Supper”
I O Italy! When winter groweth young and dies, When grim leans gay and dirges merrily, And corpsey-husks late wan burst blossoming, And dip and…
Keats’ Negative Capability and Ontological Mystery
In December 1817 the romantic poet, John Keats (1795-1821), wrote a letter to his two brothers, George and Thomas, where his now famous expression negative…