A Manifesto of Neo-Romanticism
He is thinking: “See how God writes straigh on crooked lines.”1 What realistic form can a manifesto of neo-romanticism take in a positivistic age? How…
The Good Life
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…
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: James Kalb, “Against Inclusiveness”
“When a tendency has gone to extremes, it is most evident that something must be done to oppose it. Opposing one aspect of it may…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Some liberals start with a contract that rational and self-interested agents would supposedly arrive at in a hypothetical situation, and evaluate political arrangements on the…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Conservatism has different versions because its advocates disagree about what political arrangements would make a society good. There is, however, no disagreement about having to…
Quote of the Week: Quintin Hogg, “The Case for Conservatism”
“The aim of politics, as of all else, is the good life. But the good life is something which cannot be comprehended in some phrase or formula about any…