Between Post-Christianity and Post-Democracy: On Delsol’s Pagan West
By Nathan Pinkoski This essay is part of a symposium on the thought of French political thinker Chantal Delsol in light of her latest book, La fin de la Chrétienté or The End of the Christian World. In La fin de la Chrétienté, Chantal Delsol describes the reality that...
Moral Inversion and the Things that Endure: Thoughts on Chantal Delsol’s The End of the Christian World
By Daniel J. Mahoney This essay is part of a symposium on the thought of French political thinker Chantal Delsol in light of her latest book, La fin de la Chrétienté or The End of the Christian World. With La Fin de la Chrétienté: L’inversion normative et la nouvel...
The Return to Paganism
By Chantal Delsol This essay is part of a symposium on the thought of French political thinker Chantal Delsol in light of her latest book, La fin de la Chrétienté or The End of the Christian World. Christianity was the instigator and guide of Western civilization, the...
Stuck with Lawler
Reflections on Natural Law, History, and the Enduring Legacy of Peter Augustine Lawler By Grant Havers It has been five years since the passing of Peter Augustine Lawler. Friends and readers may wonder what exactly he would have thought of the disorienting changes in...
Bolshevism, Truth, and Ancient Greek Philosophy
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Redux By Pedro Blas González Beginning in the early twentieth century, Bolshevism’s incessant propaganda and disinformation campaigns have made it next to impossible, even for thoughtful persons, to separate appearance from reality...
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