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Opinion: Temples of the gods
“Sacred” is not a word or concept that has ever come naturally or easily to leftists. For the left, the beginning of all wisdom is the denial of God and the Divine. So it was […]
Articles by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
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Pope Francis, Europe, and the “universe in little pieces”
Pope Francis has recently issued two documents of great interest. The first of these was his third encyclical (and second social encyclical) Fratelli Tutti, in which he urges the world to come together to “contribute […]
Books
Some People Did See It Coming
If only for the sake of accuracy and fairness, the first-person plural pronoun in the title of this book begs definition, since a good many people did see “it” coming over the last four decades. […]
Books
Politics as Wish: A review of The Enchantments of Mammon
History is not fate but it is logical, even when the human actors do not themselves behave logically on occasion, or even much of the time. Intellectual historians, whose business is identifying and tracing the […]
Features
Will Nothing Good Happen Here?
As quoted by Andrew Stuttaford in a recent review in the Wall Street Journal of three new books about the Third Reich, Ernst Lubtisch, the distinguished Hollywood director and German-Jewish emigré, replied to a question […]
Books
Rightly Said: Remembering Neil McCaffrey
Neil McCaffrey was the founder and president of Arlington House and The Conservative Book Club, and did promotion work for National Review in its early years. He was also my father-in-law, though to the best […]
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A Case for Maigret: What was the origin of the Notre-Dame de Paris fire?
Twenty-four hours after the blaze at Notre-Dame last April 15 was brought under control, the cause of the fire was officially announced by the Élysée. In the professed view of the French government, the disaster […]
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Conscientious Omniscience
The notion of a liberal education that developed in Western civilization is grounded on the assumption that there are certain subjects with which properly educated people should be familiar and about which they should be […]
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Joseph de Maistre, revolution, and tradition
Émile Faguet, the French author and literary critic of the second half of the 19th century, described Joseph de Maistre as “a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, and intransigent legitimist, apostle of a monstrous trinity […]
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Notre Dame de la France
On April 16, the day after the devastating fire that destroyed the 850-year-old frame constructed of French oak (and known as “the forest,” owing to the 52 acres from which it was harvested), the roofing, […]