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“A most Happy Revolution”
The real Konservative Revolution The Brabantine Revolution of 1789 doesn’t attract much attention in general discourse for understandable reasons. Epochal events were underway not far south of modern Belgium in that most auspicious of years. It has however attracted the comment and analysis of some fine masters of history, such as Jacques Godechot(pioneer of ‘Atlantic Continue reading
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A Note on La Rochefoucauld
When questions swirled, an answer had to be sought General awareness of this eclectic writer of maxims mostly comes from Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, wherein the Maximes‘ insight into moral ambiguities and self-interests, aided by the stylistic brevity, provokes a critical redressal of ethics. Jonathan Swift wrote glowing praise that as the maxims drew Continue reading
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Ante-Woke
Foreign policy, the Cold War and the Global Colour Line The intellectual matrix that legitimises power enabled a grand narrative of anti-totalitarianism to form that provided American policy undertaking retroactive justification and coherence to maintain benevolent hegemony. A unique/miscellaneous constellation of American progressivism with inspiration from sources as varied as Unitarian theology, psychoanalysis, Boasian anthropology, Continue reading
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Divine Eminence: Nationality and kinship in Old Europe
The fundamental premise investigated on this matter by both titans of Mediaeval history, Gaines Post and Ernst Kantorowicz, was the translatio/transferendo of Roman dignity via Lex Regia, in which Estate dominions could assume a legal character as nations through membership in the communitas regni in a secular sense and the ecclesia universalis in a religious Continue reading
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Rivarol
Moving between a rock and a hard place Antoine de Rivarol may have never wished to be twinned for eternity with his rival Chamfort, though both epigrammists wrote with an acerbic pen after all. But Rivarol was part-prophet. He posessed the realism of the vanquished. Buried somewhere unknown to us in Berlin, where he passed Continue reading
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The Paradox of Peace
An Abridged Translation from the original Spanish of De la Guerra y de la Paz by Alvaro D’Ors, Chapter I: “Silent leges inter Arma” The idea of peace has become an obsessive idea these days. Those responsible for governing and simple citizens, men of bad faith and good faith, victorious peoples and defeated peoples, the Continue reading
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The Crusades(their times and thereafter)
“On this account I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ’s heralds to publish this everywhere and to persuade all people, whatever their rank, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and banish that vile race from the lands of our friends…Let therefore hatred depart from you, let quarrels end, let wars cease and Continue reading
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