Fr. Ian Boyd was one of the most beautiful representatives of that culture that goes by the name of “conservatism.” His name will forever remain linked to that of G.K. Chesterton, and especially to "The Chesterton Review." The founder of The Chesterton Review, emblem of a conservatism we miss, passed away at 88. Fr. [...]
“All over the world men and women will meet on December 25th to do what is a very old-fashioned and, if you like, a very Pagan thing—to sing and feast because a God has been born. You are uncertain whether it is more than a myth. Well, if it is, then our last hope is [...]
Christopher Nolan’s rightly celebrated movie is not what you expect to see. It uses the life and times of the father of the atomic bomb to denounce a world made wretched by the lack of truth. And T.S. Eliot becomes a seer of hope, prophesying that, before the nuke-metaphor explodes, there is still a chance [...]
In "The Conservative Mind," Russell Kirk, the father of American modern conservatism, said plainly that America is conservative or nothing, that America is European or nothing, and that conservative ‘European’ America is the only root of and hope for America itself. At 70, Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind is a young book. That work can [...]