Post Tagged 'Western civiliation'

November 25, 2025

Rage Against the Machine. Or Don’t.

It’s unusual to be in the situation of reviewing a book no one will like. I don’t mean that literally; a handful of people will appreciate Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine, probably the same people who have followed his work for the past decade. Continue Reading...

January 30, 2025

The New Iconoclasm

Today’s iconoclasts seek little more than a photo in the newspaper, feeding their narcissistic love of the image of themselves performing destruction. In the historical struggle over images—iconomachy (Eikonomachía)—there is no doubt that in the Christian West the iconophiles were victorious. Continue Reading...

December 18, 2024

T.S. Eliot and Abraham Lincoln: Christian Humanists

On November 4, 1932, the Friday before the national election that would send Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House, T.S. Eliot spoke for the first time as the Norton lecturer at Harvard University. Continue Reading...