Power, Glory, and Vanity: The Politics of Romantic Poetry
“And on the pedestal these words appear: / ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ / Nothing beside…
Augustine’s Humility of Preaching
Saint Augustine is the towering figure who looms over western theology. Almost all people are familiar with his name through the Confessions, his semi-autobiographical work. Others know…
The Imperial Party Has No Clothes
Joe Biden’s candidacy and presidency was a promise to return to normalcy after one term of Trump’s erratic administration. Far from this return to normalcy, global chaos…
The Victorian Author Who Predicted Our Woke Future
When Edmund Burke penned his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France, he accosted the militant excesses of the revolutionaries for bringing death and destruction to a…
Our Man in Paris
Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer…
Scientizing Liberty: Gary Gindler’s Heroic Failure
When discussing political philosophy, it is important to be discussing political philosophy. Political philosophy is not “politics” as we use that term in societal parlance, and political…
Confronting the Gnostic Cosmos: Understanding Eric Voegelin
On March 12, 1938, German soldiers began crossing the border between Germany and Austria. It was an invasion. The Austrian government was in total disarray. Pro-Nazi sympathizers…
The Long Second World War
World War II is still being fought. Not on the battlefields of charging men and burning tanks, but in the battlefields of the hearts and minds of…
Identity, Idolatry, and Discord in the City of Man
“Western society is experiencing severe internal disorder. Stimulated by progressive politicians and radical Identity proponents; enforced through legal sanctions based on juridical decisions contrary to an originalist…
For God, For Country, and For Yale: And Other Currently Unpopular Opinions
It is currently an unpopular opinion to be supportive of America’s institutions of higher education, especially the prestigious universities like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and others—especially in…
How Shakespeare Would Have Loved Us and How We Love Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is widely considered the “greatest” of England’s many poets and writers, a dramatist whose works stir the heart and mind in both its language and…
Shakespeare and the Good Life
William Shakespeare is the immortal bard of the English language, the great dramatist of the human soul on the human stage. Shakespeare is recorded as having been…
East of Appomattox: Where Old Times Are Still Not Forgotten
One of the great joys of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee is that when I am out hiking the mountainous landscape of the Appalachian and…
Editor’s Commentary
March was a month of pilgrimage for many, culminating in the celebration of Easter, to which we also participated with a wide selection of essays, reviews, and…
Passion and Exodus
Throughout the Christian world, except in Germanic-language countries, Easter is known as Passover. The Passover, of course, is a Jewish holy festival—it marks the deliverance of the…