A "Conservatism" Behind the Times

They think big government is sustainable.

Our task is not so much to preserve #traditions, but to reawaken them and to establish new ones. This approach is more reactionary; Central European #conservatism is combative, because it has to be. An #Essay by @GergelySzilvay #Europe #traditionhttps://t.co/KdGfNdCueC

— The European Conservative (@EuroConOfficial) May 6, 2022

Deluded Latins

imposing their piety in an "ecumenical" mass movement.

The model of The Holy Family is the remedy to the modern culture of death. Why?

1. Joseph is the standard for fatherhood and masculinity.
2. Mary is the bearer of motherhood and feminine grace.
3. Jesus is truth, love, and justice embodied. pic.twitter.com/fyA5dkE71X

— The New Columbia Movement (@NCMvmt) May 6, 2022

Greydanus on The Northman

In the Viking epic The Northman, the arthouse horror auteur behind The Witch and The Lighthouse takes on his most ambitious challenge to date.https://t.co/rMgZSqKxHv

— Catholic World Report (@cworldreport) May 5, 2022

Someone Didn't Learn from MacIntyre Properly

MacIntyre may have denounced the nation-state but he also denounces its regime, which Adam DeVille fails to understand, instead promoting the fiction that we live in a "democracy":

White Christian nationalism motivates the anti-democratic, authoritarian, and violent impulses on display in our current political moment. The future of American democracy, Gorski and Perry argue, will depend on whether a broad spectrum of Americans―stretching from democratic socialists to classical liberals―can unite in a popular front to combat the threat to liberal democracy posed by white Christian nationalism.

Just because you're an academic doesn't mean you have political wisdom.

The Utter Fatuousness of All Nationalisms