Anguish over the decline of civilisation is the affliction of a conservative. The leftist cannot lament the disappearance of something of which he is ignorant.

- Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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The truth about ourselves:

“America was our champion, but the West as a whole has proved itself unequal to the barbaric will.”

-Excerpt from this essay by David Warren

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Spengler on Militant Religiosity

Oswald Spengler (1880 – 1936), the German historian and philosopher, devotes a suite of three chapters (VII, VIII, and IX) in his Decline of

The Orthosphere

Excerpt: “The 2010s saw a ramping up of contemporary Puritanism, as Spengler defines that term. The last decade has brought forth a new Iconoclasm in the toppling of statues and historical markers, the re-naming of streets and institutions, and the veiling of paintings. At the same time, the contemporary Puritan mind submits entirely, takes a knee to concepts, or to the narrow range of them that dominates hackneyed professorial lectures in the humanities and the obnoxious prose of journalism, whether in print or in videography. Such prose bypasses the intellect and addresses the endocrine system exclusively.

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