In light of the values
Authority has lost its prestige along with humility. Authority has become synonymous with implacable order, unthinking force, tyranny...
Category: Modern World
Unamuno on his Quixotic quest
My work – I was about to say my mission – is to shatter the faith of some, and even of a third party: faith in the...
Unamuno on Don Quixote
I feel I have a medieval soul and I have the idea that the soul of my homeland is medieval, that, by necessity, it has passed through the Renaissance, the Reformation,...
Postscript (by Georges Mathieu)
If "France's misfortunes are exemplary," it will take us thirty years to recover from the last one: that of the laxity of the right combined with sectarianism...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (3/7. Destiny)
Part 3: Destiny. Man descends from the tree. Man, like the tree, is defined as much by his roots as by his fruit. Man, like the tree...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (2/7. The funeral)
Part 2: The Funeral — “My dearest Ismene. I came this morning to tell you that I've taken care of everything. I used the same funeral home for…”.
News from Louis-René des Forêts
On this rainy Sunday, while rereading the notes I jotted down in the margins of the marvelous Ostinato, I came across this gem among gems: Let's not veil our figures...
News about Hyppolite Taine
He's a pedant; a pedant is someone with a hollow, puffed-up mind who, because he's full of words, thinks he's full of ideas, revels in his own phrases, and deceives himself...
News from Nicolàs Gómez Dàvila
Let us call a totalitarian state the one that results from the attempt to replace social integration, destroyed by the liberal and democratic mentality, with a...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (1/7. The family)
Part 1: The Family From the very first reading of Antigone, an ambiguity arises in the reader's mind. Does Antigone embody the action or...
Charlie's Destiny
"The enemy limits you, therefore shapes you and establishes you." This quote from Saint-Exupéry aptly expresses our condition at the end of this first week of...
Two thousand and fourteen years ago…
Christmas can be summed up in four letters: fiat. Before being an industrial symbol, it was the word, the acceptance of Mary by the angel. This acceptance...
Novena for France
What a beautiful initiative! A novena for France. A novena to express our love for the Blessed Virgin and ask her to watch over us with all the saints...
A day at the job center in 2014
An edifying story I heard this week… A far cry from the grandstanding of our leaders on television. One day….