The Social Pathologist

When leaders fail, new leaders are projected upward out of the eternal spirit of France: from Charlemagne to Joan of Arc to Napoleon, Poin...

Now, I'll tell you how I felt about de Gaulle. About two years before de Gaulle came back into office I began to tell Dulles, I said, no...

  My children are politically interested but not woke and one of them, in particular, is quite cynical. This morning, over breakfast, he ask...

Apologies for not posting for a while but as I've mentioned in the comments section of a previous post, I'm currently down follow in...

As Rod Dreher wails, I was struck by this passage in Eugen Weber's, The Hollow Years . In many ways, France in the 1930's was much l...

 Wishing all my readers the a Merry Christmas. Here's some Christian civilisation for you.

How it began: From The Guardian, How it's going. From The Daily Mail: The Australian newspaper has more details (behind paywall) but ap...

Donald Trump gets a fair amount of loathing here in Australia by our "respectable" media but so does Cardinal Pell, who was recent...

This is an excellent review of Dreher's, Live Not by Lies and I broadly agree with the sentiments of the author: Scrutonism, of which a...

"I appealed to Lincoln for his own sake to remove Grant at once, and in giving my reasons for it, I simply voiced the admittedly over...

One of the things that I've been trying to understand is how the Left was able to achieve a total dominance in Western Civilisation over...

As the Church became more and more feminized, the predominance of feminine emotions encouraged both mystics and the theologians who counsele...

One of the other things I didn't like about Charles Taylor's book is his theory of secularisation. While he does not explicitly...

While the effects of an excarnational culture can most easily be seen in the domain of sexuality, it's most pernicious effects lay i...

But this understates the difficulties. That Christianity has often been seen as another form of Platonism, even worse in that it seems ...