The Year in Review: 2018, Year of Rage, Year of Hope
As this summary of issues for 2018 is being drafted, possibly the biggest event on the political landscape is the Government shutdown threatened by US…
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2017 Symposium – Urho Lintinen
Restraint: An Heroic Tale in Three Acts Every now and then, a social phenomenon reported by the omnipresent media drives me to engage with a…
René Girard – Imitation and Life Without God
In preparation for teaching a literature course in the 1950s, René Girard reread some of the classic novels. In the process he realized that the…
Quote of the Week: Evan Sayet, “The Kindergarten of Eden”
“The Modern Liberal was born into a life as close to paradise as any human being since God first created man. Having come of age…
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“Conversely, the trade-union movement in the English Speaking world (see pages 84-87) often represents not the massman or Overadjusted Man but an anti-modern, unconsciously conservative…
2016 Symposium – Krzysztof Urbanek
Adversus Haereses: Nicolás Gómez Dávila Against the Religion of Democracy¹ I Nicolás Gómez Dávila2 is primarily known for his authorship of the five volume work…
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…
Quote of the Week: Arthur Versluis “Antimodernism”
“If the essence of modernism is progress, a belief that technological development means socioeconomic improvement, the heart of antimodernism is a realization that ‘progress’ has an underbelly – that…
Quote of the Week: René Guénon, “An Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines”
“Europeans, since the days when they began to believe in ‘progress’ and in ‘evolution’, that is to say since a little more than a century…