Irving Babbitt & Richard Weaver: Conservative Sages

By |2023-08-16T18:07:14-05:00August 16th, 2023|Categories: Character, Conservatism, Culture, Featured, George A. Panichas, Irving Babbitt, Order, Richard Weaver, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

Moral indolence and apathy, both Babbitt and Weaver stress, must be surpassed if one is to fly beyond the nets of naturalism and temperamental excesses. Character and Culture: Essays on East and West, by Irving Babbitt, with a new Introduction by Claes G. Ryn Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time, by Richard [...]

Ben Jonson’s “To Penshurst” & the Good Society

By |2023-07-25T17:03:52-05:00July 25th, 2023|Categories: Community, Conservatism, Culture, Order, Permanent Things, Poetry, Timeless Essays|Tags: , |

Ben Jonson’s “To Penshurst” has received very little attention, no doubt because of the well known circumstance that Jonson himself is more honored than read. Yet “To Penshurst” is a memorable poem, and perhaps a great one. Civilization is memory. –Hugh Kenner I cannot do my duty as a true modern, by cursing everybody who [...]

John Dryden: The Politics of Style

By |2023-07-18T14:17:32-05:00July 18th, 2023|Categories: Art, Conservatism, Culture, Order, Poetry, T.S. Eliot, Timeless Essays|Tags: , |

John Dryden was, for the most part, a man of quiet temperament; yet he presided over a literary revolution. As a poet and critic he destroyed the principal seventeenth-century literary modes and created the style and the methods that would characterize the eighteenth. The rise in John Dryden’s reputation, commencing a generation or so ago, [...]

Reflections on American Order

By |2023-04-28T16:56:22-05:00April 28th, 2023|Categories: Essential, Order, Ordered Liberty, RAK, Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk, Timeless Essays|

Order is the first need of all. One finds happiness in restoring and improving the order of the soul and the order of the republic—not in acts of devastation that make a desert of spirit and of society. Imagine a man travelling through the night, without a guide, thinking continually of the direction he wishes [...]

Whether Order Is the First Need of All

By |2022-12-03T15:16:37-06:00December 3rd, 2022|Categories: Order, Russell Kirk, T.S. Eliot|

The more genuine sources of order come not from opinion-makers but from custom, convention, and continuity. The appeal is to the three parts that make an associated sensibility: heart, imagination, and intellect, and all three are calculating and decision-making, and all three tutored by the eternal standards of what is right and what is wrong. [...]

The Denial of the Natural Order

By |2023-08-21T18:31:28-05:00May 11th, 2022|Categories: Mitchell Kalpakgian, Modernity, Natural Law, Order, William Shakespeare|

Without a natural order on which to build, the religious order has no solid foundation on which to teach charity, enrich culture, or refine civilization. Without the cardinal virtues in place, the theological virtues will not follow. “The fundamental heresy of our day is perhaps the denial of the natural order, of the very foundations [...]

God Said; We Say

By |2020-08-27T16:04:57-05:00August 28th, 2020|Categories: Christianity, George Stanciu, Language, Nature, Order, Science, Senior Contributors|

Language is at the heart of Creation. Because we are created in the image of God who spoke and created intelligible matter, our language mirrors Creation in a hazy, incomplete way. Our speech calls into existence names and creates a narrative to link together our experiences in a coherent way. A life without words is [...]

How Will the Rioting End?

By |2020-08-11T13:41:25-05:00August 11th, 2020|Categories: Civil Society, Order, Pat Buchanan|

Today, people watch their leaders in city after city fail to keep the peace and restore order as protesters riot at will, and they make plans to move out. In the suburbs and country, they quietly observe the inability of cops to quell the violence, and they buy guns. Since the death of George Floyd [...]

Is Defunding the Police the Answer?

By |2020-06-22T10:04:04-05:00June 21st, 2020|Categories: American Republic, Community, John Horvat, Justice, Order, Politics|

America needs moral restoration. Without it, society just goes from bad to worse, chasing doomed utopian ideas like defunding the police, and redirecting funds to leftist groups that hate and subvert the traditional family. Trying to solve the problem of policing without moral regeneration and the rebuilding of our families, communities, and Church is an [...]

Understanding Hegel’s Theory on Time

By |2023-05-21T11:29:16-05:00November 4th, 2019|Categories: E.B., Eva Brann, In Honor of Eva Brann at 90 Series, Liberal Learning, Nature, Order, Philosophy, Senior Contributors, St. John's College, Time|

Time, it will turn out, is a kind of intuiting, indeed the matrix of all intuiting, but it is not therefore to be intuited, that is, looked at, rather than thought out. The moving pictures that Hegel himself suggests to illustrate the emerging determinations of thought are only concessions to our ordinarily representational minds. This [...]

How to Rediscover the Order of the Universe in a Postmodern World

By |2019-10-16T22:18:34-05:00October 16th, 2019|Categories: Beauty, Books, Culture, John Horvat, Modernity, Order|

There is an order of the universe. How refreshing are these words! They cause a certain joy, especially in our days of chaos. If an order exists, then God exists who is its Creator and source. We might then exclaim with the Psalmist how all creation gives glory to God and elevates our souls towards [...]

What Is Beauty and Why Do We Need It?

By |2020-05-12T22:57:09-05:00June 11th, 2019|Categories: Beauty, Culture, Order|

Beauty demands that we celebrate order with creativity, surprise, and freshness. We are meant to be startled by the goodness of reality, astonished by things working the way they’re supposed to, and delighted by the truth. Let us suppose there is such a thing as objective beauty. Suppose, along with the classical and Christian traditions, [...]

This is America’s New Face of Brutal Rage and Chaos

By |2019-02-17T23:10:03-06:00February 17th, 2019|Categories: Abortion, Civil Society, Order, Politics|

At some point this past month, America crossed a Rubicon that dramatically threw our society into a disorder manifested by the denial of reality and truth. However, the unmasking of disorder in all its hideousness has produced more intense longings for a return of a moral order by those who grieve for the nation and [...]

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