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Abies fraseri Christmas tree plantation, USA

Artificial or Natural? A Conservative Christmas Conundrum

‘As Christmas approaches, even the most steadfast conservative is faced with a profound seasonal dilemma: should one opt for an artificial tree or remain loyal to the natural variety? The question is more than a practical matter—it is imbued with…
Twelve Apostles at Port Campbell National Park, Princetown, Victoria, Australia (2019)

The Dilemma of Christian Democracy

‘With the Second Vatican Council a new kind of theology—the so called nouvelle théologie —stepped inside the Church and started to play a decisive role in it. Its main authors like Marie-Dominique Chenu and Henri De Lubac emphasized that the…
in God we trust

Combining God and State: Ten Principles to Enable Nations to Prosper

‘A simple example of restraining evil, which works quite well, are the referees who manage athletic contests. They simply enforce the rules so that order is maintained. They do not help either team win, they do not help the injured,…
Mattheus Terwesten, Allegory of Freedom (1701). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Triumph, Decline — and Renewal?

‘Freedom, understood concretely, is a civilizational, not a natural, construct. This essentially conservative argument could provide the very basis for the continuation of a certain political tradition without which we, modern souls, would live in a much more cruel and…
Claude Monet, The Pont de l'Europe, Gare Saint-Lazare (1877). Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France

Elites and How They Should Be Educated

‘Ortega’s image of what members of his ideal elite should be like derives from his wider philosophy. His spells at German universities made him initially a fervent neo-Kantian who, seeing the world through the lens of transcendental idealism, believed in…
Jan Saenredam, Plato's Allegory of the Cave (1604). The British Museum, London, England

The Third Budapest School

‘The Third Budapest School strives to debate the one-sided, analytical, progressive, nihilistic aspirations that dominate American intellectual life, and to cultivate initiatives based on classical European philosophy. It does this by stimulating the formulation of important questions: in contrast to…
Workshop of Jan Brueghel the Younger, Paradise with the Creation of Animals (before 1678). Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany

Worlds of Law: A Foray into Aquinas

‘There is one sense in which Aquinas certainly did not believe in worlds. This is the sense in which certain Greek philosophers held that there is an infinity of worlds…Aquinas asserts what he calls the “unity of the world”. He…
Portrait of Karl Polanyi taken on 31 December 1917 (photographer unknown)

A Conservative View on Laissez faire Economics

Policies such as pro-family tax cuts, housing programmes, child benefits etc., all resulting in a kind of family income system that aims to reduce the harm inflicted on families by a Ricardian conception of the economy (which, obviously, cannot be…
Prince Árpád holding a drinking horn (detail, Chronicon Pictum, cca 1360)

The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part IV

‘On our part, we doubt that “history of ideas” as a methodologically coherent discipline existed in Hungary between the two world wars…Nevertheless, their work is undoubtedly a prime example of an attempt at the creation of a conservative-oriented social science….

The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part III

‘Linguistic–ethnic nationalism is the quintessential negative (in Joó’s parlance, “imperialist”) nationalism, a nationalism insensitive to qualitative differences or to more elevated spiritual concepts of the state, such as the unifying “Hungarus consciousness” of the nomadic empire’s supranationalism, which derives from…

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