Along with another round of Beltway scandal and misdeeds in the Middle East, this spring has seen the United States once again consumed by debate over homosexual “marriage,” with the US Supreme Court deciding upon the constitutionality of legislation banning …
Tag: Traditionalism
Pleasure-Dome Police State
“We should expect tyranny to result from democracy, the most savage subjection from an excess of liberty”. -Plato, Republic, Book VIII, 564 a This December, as many Americans attended to their rituals of shopping, spectator sports and celebrity voyeurism, the 2012 fiscal …
Counter-Subversion in Art
On Palm Sunday of this year Charles Martel, victor of Tours, could smile upon his descendants. A small band of Franks wielding hammers again rose in defense of the West. The action was local-scale and humble; there was no smashing of the Saracen …
The Battle of Belgrade
In his classic work East and West, the French scholar René Guénon noted modern man’s quest to transform the world in his own image and likeness. The materialism and spiritual disorder that reign in our age are to be imposed everywhere: …
The Soul of the East 
Dostoevsky on Conservatism
Fyodor Dostoevsky has rightly been called a prophet of the modern age. With a depth of vision unrivalled, he saw that cultural, political, and economic disorder have their main source in a crisis of the spirit. Dostoevsky then foresaw how …
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