Unlike Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald devoted little space to analyzing the French Revolution itself. His focus instead was on understanding the traditional society which had been swept away. His review of Mme. de Staël’s Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, e.g., ends up turning into a theory [...]
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December 4, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged aristocracy, F. Roger Devlin, Louis de Bonald |
Editor’s Note: “Elite Status” by Hunter Wallace, a.k.a. Prozium, has been translated into Czech as “Vládnoucí elita” and published on the Delian Diver (Délský potápěč) site. The article was originally published on Occidental Dissent, but Delian Diver found it on TOQ Online and linked to us. Congratulations Mr. Wallace!
Kdo by měl vládnout?
Každý den, když si [...]
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November 5, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged Christianity, elitism, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hunter Wallace, libertarianism, National Socialism, Plato, Prozium, translations |
Read Part 1 here.
Divorce
The 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 [...]
On Divorce
Louis de Bonald
Translated and edited by Nicholas Davidson
New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1992
On 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 [...]
Who should rule?
Logging on this morning, I see that this has once again become a burning issue among the commentators. So far, I haven’t had much to say about the topic. I don’t aspire to rule over anyone. Becoming a politician isn’t a good fit with my introverted personality type. It is a task that [...]
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October 20, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged Alexander Hamilton, anarchism, Christianity, elitism, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hunter Wallace, libertarianism, monarchy, National Socialism, Plato, Prozium, Thomas Jefferson |
