The virtues of boredom
In a short, acerbic book (On France, translated by Alain Paruit, L'Herne), Emil Cioran offered an answer to the French malaise. He explained how much he cared...
Category: Modern World
Notes on The Child of Pleasure
Notes on Gabriele D'Annunzio's *The Child of Pleasure*. P. 58. Between the Trinity obelisk and the Conception column, I suspended...
Notes on the History of Catholicism
Notes from Jean-Pierre Moisset's *Histoire du catholicisme* (chapter 9: The Shock of Modernity (mid-18th century – 1870), p. 394. The ritual of touching...
Notes on the French Revolution
Most of the quotations concerning the French Revolution given in this article come from the book "Historiquement correct" by Jean Sévillia. — S...
The slimy moralism of the West
It is always amusing and instructive to realize the contradictions of one's opponents. How can this modern society, so proud of its freedom, of its...
Oshio Heihachiro, samurai of the rebellion
To fully understand Oshio Heihachiro's actions, one must understand that they are dictated by an anti-revolutionary character and will...
Onfray's cries of outrage
So Onfray read a book that reveals the making of Ernst Jünger… Michel Vanoosthuyse: Fascism and Pure Literature. It reveals—we are always told….
The secular and modern world
There's the beautiful Italian word "vergogna," and there's the French word, emptied of its meaning in modern times, "shame." Who hasn't found themselves in the middle of...