Book Review: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”
– Job 40:20
Author: Theodosius
Book Review: A Treatise on Perfection by Cardinal Richelieu
“For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.”
– Matthew 11:30
Men Among the Ruins: How the Feminization of Higher Education Destroyed Academia
Why feelings matter more than facts in academia.
Book Review: The Life of J.-K. Huysmans by Robert Baldick
“Lord, you gave him great talent, and he used it for your glory. You gave him great suffering, and he accepted it for your blessing…”
– Abbé Fontaine
Book Review: New Lies for Old by Anatoliy Golitsyn
“Our major secret weapon is to deprive you of an enemy.”
– Georgi Arbatov
Trobadourism: The Idolization of Romance and Its Decadent Consequences, Past and Present
“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
– William Shakespeare
Postmodern Pygmalion
“‘Let us flee then to the beloved Fatherland’: this is the soundest counsel. But what is this flight? How are we to gain the open sea? For Odysseus is surely a parable to us when he commands the flight from the sorceries of Circe or Calypso — not content to linger for all the pleasure offered to his eyes and all the delight of sense filling his days.
The Fatherland to us is There whence we have come, and There is The Father.”
– Plotinus
Book Review: Religion and the Rise of Western Culture by Christopher Dawson
“The importance of these centuries…is not to be found in the external order they attempted to create, but in the internal change they brought about in the soul of Western man—a change which can never be entirely undone expect by the total negation or destruction of Western man himself.”
– Christopher Dawson
Right and Might: The Reign of Christ the King and National Identity (Part II)
“Now it is God who is, for you and me, of a truth the ‘measure of all things,’ much more truly than, as they say, ‘man.’” – Plato
Book Review: The Making of Europe by Christopher Dawson
“For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.”
– Pericles, “Funeral Oration”