The Lessons of the Versailles Treaty
The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919. Neither the winners nor the losers of World War I were happy […]
Defense of the West
The War Over America’s Past Is Really About Its Future
The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of the […]
A Transformation of the American Regime?
Almost all observers agree that America is profoundly divided. This intense polarization has been described by the Claremont Institute’s Angelo Codevilla as a “cold civil […]
Reclaiming the Republic
Are Americans too corrupt to be free? As our Constitution’s framers well knew, a republic is the most demanding form of government. If the people […]
Immigration as Reparations?
The New York Times recently published an op-ed advancing a rather peculiar argument. Author Suketu Mehta builds on the familiar, hackneyed debate over reparations for […]
Clarity About Nationalism
In order to make arguments for nationalism, we have to define it. The first definition in Merriam-Webster is “loyalty and devotion to a nation.” But […]
Why Are the Western Middle Classes So Angry?
What is going on with the unending Brexit drama, the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s election and the “yellow vests” protests in France? What drives the […]
‘Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ Has Got to Go’
On January 15, 1987, Jesse Jackson and around 500 protesters marched down Palm Drive, Stanford University’s grand main entrance, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Western […]
Sohrab Ahmari and Our Existential Struggle
Perhaps the most amusing intramural intellectual squall on the Right these past few days has centered on “Against David French-ism,” Sohrab Ahmari’s recent polemical reflection […]
The Surprising Internationalism of the Nationalists
Globalism is the ideology of the ruling class. It is the stuff of the World Economic Forum, Paris Climate Treaty, multinational banks pushing transsexuals, payment […]
The Virtues of Patriotism
The elections to the European Parliament underway now through Sunday present a major war of ideas between the “Europe of Nations” and the “Europe of […]
The Constitution Does Not Protect Freedom of Speech
Around the inner rotunda of the Rhode Island state capitol stands this quotation from Tacitus: Rara temporum felicitas ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias […]
The Modern Bonfire of the Vanities
Five centuries ago, in Renaissance Florence, the Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola, in his quest to purge Florence of all “immoral” works of art, started what […]
The Political Implications of the Antihero
Once upon a time in Western civilization, the knight in shining armor was the beau ideal for male character development. A guileless, clean-living, fair-playing Christian […]
Control the Narrative, Save the West
Although the mechanism is mysterious, it often seems as though a centralized control center is issuing out for dissemination the turns of phrase and interpretations […]
To Conquer Chaos, Court It
For all of the rhetoric about our supposed liberal international order, the world is more chaotic and unstable than it has been since World War […]
The Burning of Notre Dame and the Destruction of Christian Europe
The fire that destroyed much of the Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris is a tragedy that is irreparable. Even if the cathedral […]
Appeasement in the Academy
At Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, a student club with the expressed purpose of “the preservation, dissemination and extension of the Western moral and philosophical […]
Democratic Self-Government or Mass Migration?
Editor’s Note: The following is drawn from remarks delivered in late March at the Mathias Covinus Collegium International Conference on Migration in Budapest, Hungary. If […]
Truth and Hand Washing in the Mueller Report
What is truth?” shrugged the ambitious official, stuck for the moment in flyover country but with ambitions to return to Rome and higher office. He […]