Quote of the Week: Eric Voegelin, “The Political Religions”
“When the heart is sensitive and the mind is perceptive, one look at the world will suffice to see the misery of the human creature…
Natural Hierarchy
Quote of the Week: Giovan Battista Vico, “The New Science” (1774)
“So that if worship of providence were forbidden, the natural consequence would be their fall, for a nation of fatalists or casualists or atheists never existed in…
Quote of the Week: Bryce Laliberte, “What is Neoreaction”
“In one sense it the refusal to dialogue with modernism that allows neoreaction to develop, for the very idea of modernism is that dialogue only…
The Sacred Grove: Natural Space and the Numinous
I A pervasive interest in the association of natural space with the sacred is a noticeable tendency in the work of some important Traditionalists. Tolkien,…
Quote of the Week: John C. Calhoun, “A Disquisition on Government”
“If man had been differently constituted in either particular ;– if, instead of being social in his nature, he had been created without sympathy for…
Quote of the Week: Sophocles, “Ajax”
“[…] I have learned my lesson, To obey the gods – and not be disrespectful To the sons of Atreus; they are in command, And…
Quote of the Week: Hilaire Belloc, “The Crisis of Civilization”
“Status arose from the strong, instinctive demand of a Catholic society for stable social relations between men, and, what was much more important, for a…
The Great Man of History and the Fallacy of Equality
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? [Where is the Great Man?] (1 Corinthians…
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,…
Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Neil Peart – The Trees
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Dominik Giemza. The notes were produced for a broadcast of Monday,…