Ecstasy and the Love of Wisdom

Apr 15, 2024 by

By Peter Kwasniewski, European Conservative. As the Western philosophical tradition uses the term—as one can see exemplified in the works of St. Thomas Aquinas—“ecstasy,” the standing outside of oneself in or toward another, is a thing of...

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When George Soros Tried To Cancel Pythagoras

Jan 22, 2024 by

By Carlos Perona Calvete, European Conservative. (Image: Bust of Pythagoras in Villa Borghese, Wikimedia Commons) The founder of Western philosophy was persecuted by the oligarchy-sponsored anti-family egalitarian atheism of his day. Soon...

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Freedom and Truth in an Age of Deception

Nov 20, 2023 by

By Itxu Díaz, European Conservative. We live in fear of AI taking our jobs, replacing us in relationships, or even developing horrible robots that could devour the world. But long before any of that happens, we must face a different...

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Reflections on the Revolution in America

Aug 21, 2023 by

By Pavlos Leonidas Papadopoulos, First Things. Book Review: The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy by Glenn Ellmers. The year 2020 revealed two dominant impulses in the American-led world order....

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How Modernity Diminishes the Human Person

Jun 27, 2023 by

By George Stanciu, The Imaginative Conservative: Because of the strong secular faith instilled in us by education, most of us trust that science and technology, democracy, and capitalism, the three legs of Modernity, can bring about only...

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Roger Scruton and the Love of Home

May 24, 2023 by

by Mark Dooley, Public Discourse: In denying students access to their history; in dumbing down art, music, literature, and even the sacred liturgy; and in celebrating obscenity over beauty, you detach people from their past, their home,...

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