ESSAYS ━ The European Conservative (2024)

“What kind of god?” asked Tucker Carlson as Joe Rogan described the possible replacement of humans by AI.

Conservatives should combat Serbia’s social and cultural degeneration, but this has not happened.

The liturgy is a sacred and intense ritual in which everyone is focused on the priestly offering to God unfolding before the congregation.

Tolkien’s tale reminds us that we ourselves are part of the Great Story.

For Europeans, the question becomes: are willing to have larger families—or take an economic hit?

“If the Brave New World points us towards the emerging total system, it also points us towards the alternative.”

With Anderson’s passing, a great American war hero and triple ace pilot has left us.

Catholics can undermine the self-exile of technology if we understand our own counterculture in terms of reestablishing true environments.

The 7th edition of the Bal des Parisiennes will be held on Saturday, June 8th at the Pavillon Dauphine, in Paris.

It is high time for the music of Roffredo Caetani to be rediscovered.

The only ties which appeared to matter in the Italian south were the immediate links of blood and marriage.

Americans may cross the water as much as they like, but it is an ocean of time as well as space that separates us from our origins.

The acknowledgement of difference—and yet tolerance and a willingness to work together—was an essential part of my visit to Israel.

The great Tuscan poet can save our lives.

Tyranny pretends to respond to higher, more advanced, imperatives, but they are, at root, an expression of an age-old libido dominandi.

The protagonist of Creangă’s story confronts armies of demons with humor and common sense, exposing the ridiculous mediocrity of evil.

Western decadence is today revealed by an out-of-touch elite class, more interested in microaggressions than in civilizational decline.

Humanity evolved beyond the violence of the pagan world because of Hebraic ethics, universalized by the Abrahamic faiths.

Conservatives are right to press ahead with the project of articulating the mythic truth of a common culture.

The pilgrimage has gone from being of interest only to a handful of traditionalist Catholic community media to arousing the curiosity of major national outlets.

Admiral de Ruyter’s memory matters, and a corrective to the slanderous lies of leftists is in order.

Until the conversation orbits the sacrality of what Roger Scruton called ‘homecoming,’ we will be stuck with a politics of empty promises.

Modernism, in art as in politics, can be integrated into a traditional understanding of man and society’s spiritual dimension.

When a banana duct-taped to a wall is juxtaposed against a Monet, the absurdity of this cultural revolution is starkly apparent.

If it exists, where is the unseen world located?

Pentecost and the blessing of the nations in their particularity is a judgement against the false unity of tyrants.

In less than 80 minutes, Cavalleria rusticana alone establishes Mascagni as a composer worth our attention.

Is it better to deny an immigrant entry to a country on the basis of who they are or what they believe?

The Door compels the reader to ask himself if love between two people is always healthy?

As long as there is a need to support weak-willed centrists, our troops will play a false alliance in pursuit of Pyrrhic victory.