Vincent d’Indy, le Wagnerisme, & Tradition
Vincent d’Indy (1851 – 1931), a close contemporary of Sir Edward Elgar (1857 – 1934), studied under César Franck (1822 – 1890) at the Paris…
René Guénon
Is Western Civilization Misogynistic?
Resentment combines hatred and love/desire. Self-hatred and dissatisfaction often leads to imagining that someone else has it better and to resentfully desiring to be that…
2017 Symposium – Richard Cocks
Philosophy and The Crisis of the Modern World To find a way out of the current confusions and rifts in modern Western societies, and for…
The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner [Part II]
The limitations in Venner’s thought once established, it becomes possible to set forth in parallel an apology for his philosophical contribution. Venner’s active participation in…
René Guénon and Eric Voegelin on the Degeneration of Right Order [Part II]
I Guénon, Voegelin, and the Modern Crisis. The concupiscent subject’s response to the Siren Song of the ecumene, to conquer and possess it, qualifies as…
René Guénon and Eric Voegelin on the Degeneration of Right Order [Part I]
I Introduction The Diadochic Kingdoms No area of Western history is quite as recondite as that of the Diadochic empires, the successor-kingdoms that sprang up…
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 – Michael Tung
A World Turned Upside Down: Finding True North in the Last Hour In this essay I will attempt to sketch out the Traditionalist view of…
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…
2015 Symposium – Michael Tung
Ride That Tiger Or, The Party’s an Ass “… I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though it contains (and…