Poetry by Carl Hildebrand: “Historia vera unionis non falsae”
¶ When Pope held forth to Emperor the orb That Caesar clasped in long-lost Rome benighted, It fell beneath the nations being born Trampled to…
Moral Authority
2017 Symposium II – Kristor J. Lawson
Toward A New Aristocracy It is easy to show by a gedanken policy test¹ that, everything else held perfectly equal, a society ruled by its…
2017 Symposium II – James Kalb
Dissolving the Black Hole of Modernity What should traditionalists do about the situation in which we find ourselves? The problems go deep, and our response…
Equal & Opposite – Pharyngula and the Future of Christianity in the West
Every Sabbath, Christians in the Middle East face the too-real possibility of martyrdom. As they wash their face in the morning, they catch themselves in…
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 – Peter King
Of the World Some scientists tell the story that we are all made of matter that has existed since the beginning of the universe, and…
2016 Symposium – James Kalb
Liberalism as a Religion The strange and increasingly nonfunctional condition of Western political and social life cannot easily be changed, because its causes are quite…
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…
Ave Et Vale – Roderick Ian West
“Do not suppose, that in thus appealing to the ancients, I am throwing back the world two thousand years, and fettering Philosophy with the reasonings…
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,…