Is There a Future for the West?
In Conscience and Power: The Contest for Civilization in the West, Richard Bishirjian offers an account of “the toxicity of modern social existence” in the United States…
In Conscience and Power: The Contest for Civilization in the West, Richard Bishirjian offers an account of “the toxicity of modern social existence” in the United States…
When thinking or writing about Western classical music, we are so often concerned with touting its brilliance and greatness that we seldom place it in context with…
“The west does not die when nations do.” In his classic 1991 tome Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Marxist philosopher Frederic Jameson presents…
Father Anthony Giambrone begins his introduction of Theodor Haecker’s Vergil, Father of the West, republished in 2022 by Cluny Media, with a description of the modern West.[1]…
R.V. Young. Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022. How should we read Shakespeare? Some people say not…
Perhaps an apology might be necessary for the sheer audacity of beginning any essay with such a question and with such a seemingly absurd claim. Of course,…
The criticism of European modernity and its intellectual developments have long been haunting the Western intellect. Perhaps the first most vigilant observer of encroaching modernity was Pascal,…
With customary severity, Nietzsche counselled his readers, “Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity…