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…
Mass-man
Quote of the Week: José Ortega y Gasset, “Revolt of the Masses”
“If the European grows accustomed not to rule, a generation and a half will be sufficient to bring the old continent, and the whole world…
Quote of the Week: José Ortega y Gasset, “Revolt of the Masses”
“The mass-man regards himself as perfect. The select man, in order to regard himself so, needs to be specially vain, and the belief in his…
Quote of the Week: H. P. Lovecraft, “The Conservative”
“Aversion to just war can arise from one of four causes; (1) unconscious physical cowardice engendered by long years of peace, (2) hysterical idealism produced from incomplete…
Quote of the Week: José Ortega y Gasset, “Revolt of the Masses”
“My thesis, therefore, is this: the very perfection with which the XIXth Century gave an organisation to certain orders of existence as caused the masses…
Quote of the Week: René Guénon, “Crisis of the Modern World”
“Finally, there remains one direct consequence of the democratic idea to consider, and this is the negation of the idea of an elite; it is…
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“Without inner psychological liberty, outer civil liberties are not quite enough. We can talk civil liberties, prosperity, democracy with the tongues of men and angels,…