Finding Light in the Darkness
For his most recent book The Kingdom of Cain (2025), Andrew Klavan received an endorsement from Eric Metaxas and was invited to the latter’s “Socrates in the…
Our Civilizational Moment: A Review
One of the panels that the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship organized during their first conference in October of 2023 was “What is the West?” Jordan Peterson, a…
Conversations that Matter: On the West Facing Disaster, Confronting an Expansionist Axis, and Preparing for the End of History
In an article of his from last November entitled “The Six New Rules of Communicating,” writer Ted Gioia, creator of The Honest Broker blog, reflected upon the…
The Tragic Mind in Washington, Athens, and the Tragedy of Central Europe
In his 2021 Templeton Lecture on Religion and Global Affairs “Geopolitics and Religion in the 21st Century,” Robert Kaplan notes how technology, rather counterintuitively, leads to alienation,…
Robbie Robertson and The Last Waltz
In the summer of 1979, I worked in a small town in southern Ontario where one day I learned the Rockabilly artist Ronnie Hawkins was playing at…
Groundhog Day and the God of Community
It is now thirty years since Harold Ramis’s memorable Groundhog Day (1993) was released. An honor the film garnered a decade after its release was being chosen…
Movie Art and the Nature of Story
Almost anyone who has taught film studies has drawn on one of the numerous editions of the superb textbook by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson Film Art…
Cosmopolitan Europe or a Europe of Nations?
There is a fairly common attitude among Eurocrats that a good crisis should not go to waste. And the ideal solution to a crisis is to move…
The Long Road to Ukraine
At the age of nine, Frank Furedi experienced a historical event that he would never forget. The Soviet Army crushed the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, forcing Furedi…
Community and Rituals: A Review of Byung-Chul Han’s “The Disappearance of Rituals”
Byung-Chul Han. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present. Translated by Daniel Steuer. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2020. Toward the end of the twentieth…
All Donkeys Go to Heaven: “Eo” and Jerzy Skolimowski’s Masterpiece
The 1989 animated musical fantasy All Dogs Go to Heaven humorously poses the question do dogs go to heaven after their life on earth. The dog lover…
Quo Vadis Europa?
In May 2017, a group of European conservative scholars and intellectuals met in Paris. They were brought together by their common concern about the state of European…
Why History?: A Historian Gives a Historiographical and then Axiological Reply
Donald Bloxham. Why History?: A History, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020 & History and Morality, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. The identical date that…
Love and Communication
Love and Communication. Paddy Scannell. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2021. Paddy Scannell’s new thought-provoking book is a sort of intellectual and scholarly testament. He even suggests…