Aug 27, 2009

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Edgar Rice Burroughs and Masculine Narrative

From The Brussels Journal, August27, 2009Contemporary popular culture is as jejune as contemporary politics: strangled by political correctness and by contempt for form and etiquette, it eats away like acid at what remains of courtesy and memory.  But the past of popular culture – in literature and the movies – has much nourishment to offer.  One of the most popular authors...

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Aug 24, 2009

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Keyserling’s Europe (1928) and Spengler’s Hour of Decision (1934)

Snapshots Of The Continent Entre Deux Guerres: Keyserling’s Europe (1928) and Spengler’s Hour Of Decision (1934)from The Brussels Journal, August 18, 2009[. . .]The Hour of Decision, like everything that Spengler authored, is a rich mine of observation and insight, difficult to summarize, mainly because it communicates so thoroughly with the monumental Decline, to which it...

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May 31, 2009

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Today is the 200th Anniversary of Joseph Haydn’s Death

“A Conservative Obligation: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)”from The Brussels Journal, May 26, 2009The Year of Our Lord 2009 is the bicentenary of the death of Franz Joseph Haydn (d. May 31, 1809), known in the last two decades of his long life by the affectionate moniker of “Papa Haydn.” In the aftermath of the most recent American presidential election, just before...

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May 27, 2009

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Melville’s Typee (1846) and the Case for Civilization

from The Brussels Journal, May 19, 2009My subject is Herman Melville, and more specifically Melville’s case for civilization, but I would like to approach his Typee (1846), where he makes that case, through a preamble having to do with the figure against whose arguments Melville stakes his own: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.IThere is a shadow-side in the Western tradition that takes the...

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May 14, 2009

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Life in the Ruins

From The Brussels Journal, January 2, 2009. . . Do we not live under daily threat of wanton violence perpetrated against the civilized by the savage, who wish to reduce everything to savagery because civilization measures for them their own productive sterility and so inspires them with bloodthirsty invidia against real achievement?Is travel not now arduous, humiliating, and risky...

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May 8, 2009

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Colin Wilson for Conservatives

“Colin Wilson: The Persistence of Meaning”From The Brussels Journal, May 7, 2009Some literary names – Edmund Burke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, G. K. Chesterton, Oswald Spengler, T. S. Eliot, Raymond Aron, Eric Voegelin, William F. Buckley, Russell Kirk, or Roger Scruton – have immediate resonance with conservative readers, as well they should. Some others the same...

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