Mar 13, 2010

By 7

The War on Oblivion

A Discussion about the Future of Fatherhood in the WestThe birth rate of whites—native Europeans—in Europe is well below replacement level. As many writers including Pat Buchanan and Mark Steyn have noted, the aging, bloated European welfare states will increasingly be sustained by immigrants who are openly hostile to European culture. In America, our immigrants are much less...

Read More
Nov 1, 2009

By 3

Louis de Bonald, On Divorce, Part II

Read Part 1 here.DivorceThe reader may be forgiven for wondering why the foregoing matters are discussed at length in a treatise called On Divorce. Today we are inclined to view marriage as a “personal matter.” But it is not. Most obviously, it also concerns the interests of the children it produces:Public power is the guarantor of the commitment of the two spouses to form a...

Read More
Oct 31, 2009

By 1

Louis de Bonald, On Divorce, Part I

On Divorce Louis de BonaldTranslated and edited by Nicholas DavidsonNew Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1992On the European continent, Louis de Bonald has long been named alongside Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre as a foremost first generation critic of the French Revolution and founder of modern conservatism. De Maistre himself, late in life, wrote to Bonald: “I have...

Read More
Back to Top