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Political cartoon criticizing the ‘robber barons’ of industry for profiting off of workers who were poorly paid and subjected to harsh conditions. Puck magazine, February 1883

The Illusions of Progressionism and the Meaning of History

‘According to the main line of progressivists, the struggles of history lead to a just or more just society, just as science eventually overcomes “superstition”. Ironically, today’s supporters of the ideology of progress are often those post-Christian materialists who believe…
Postcard depicting the Joan of Arc celebrations in Paris. Camelots du Roi demonstrate in front of Notre-Dame de Paris, before 1914

The Fascist Temptation: Lessons from Thomas Molnar’s Bernanos

‘The lessons from Molnar’s book about Bernanos remain fresh today. The “fascist temptation” has not disappeared, but only appears in new forms…Bernanos’s prophecy is interesting because there are still today, and probably always will be, movements that call for a…
Viktor Orbán receives Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony, President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem

A Conservative Dream? — A Review of Yoram Hazony’s Conservatism: A Rediscovery

‘The question I am left with about Hazony’s rediscovered conservatism is whether it is a conservatism that is, or could be, rediscovered, or is it a conservatism that has never existed. And, even if it did exist at one time,…
The Good Samaritan by Edward Stott (1910)

A Classical Conceptualization of Human Rights as the Antidote to Psychological Suffering: The Dominance of Western Progressive Human Rights in Practice

‘The flaw in the progressive hyper focus on moral rights is that it removes the ability of reality testing outside the subjective experience. Therefore, it feeds our narcissistic tendencies, which in turn enhances destructive behaviour, anxiety, depression, and above all,…

Who Is the Forest Walker? — Conservatism and the Preservation of Freedom in the Modern World

‘In the modern, global-technological civilization based on the parallel structures of technical rationality, the idea of ​​freedom still arises as an “abstract freedom” that is allegedly “the same for everyone”. But, regarding recent facts and conditions, this concept of freedom…
Excerpt of the cover of the book Germany’s Third Empire written by Moeller van den Bruck (1923)

Beyond Reaction: The ‘Conservative Revolution’ in Germany

‘The phenomenon of the conservative revolution was partly a consequence of the collapse of the German state (formed in the 19th century by Bismarckian ‘state-building) after the First World War, and was born out of its internal and external crisis,…
Science, technology and engineering -- illustration

The Faustian Bargain

‘Various machines also existed before modernity: the builders of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages also had considerable engineering and pragmatic knowledge, so it was not that they lacked the necessary knowledge, but above all they lacked the formulation…

The Prison of Technological Determinism — How Our Perception of Technology Contributes to the Mental Health Crisis

‘A radical paradigm shift is required in which mental suffering is understood not in isolation, but in relation to consuming and depriving human existence of its roots: family, community, and a transcendental orientation. Only then can Hungarian society, as well…
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson(1789, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Democracy and the Concept of Authority

‘In today’s democracy, authority is in crisis because real authority cannot follow from mere quantity. Quantity is always relative, and the thing what is ‘never identical to itself’ cannot awaken the intuition of true respect, true authority, and true supremacy….
Anti-lockdown protesters at Queen's Park, Toronto, Canada on 25 April 2020.

Why We Should Read Carl Schmitt

‘Schmitt’s thought becomes particularly relevant in understanding how governments define the parameters of inclusion and exclusion in their responses to the pandemic. Schmitt’s theories provide a realistic framework for analysing such complex political issues, and understanding such a critical perspective…
Tea Time by Jan Josef Horemans II (18th century)

Culture and Civilization — Oswald Spengler’s Approach to History

Spengler’s work has not lost any relevance over the century that has passed since it was released, but rather has become increasingly significant: it is now one of the inescapable foundations of the philosophy of history. Many of the predictions…
Jan Brueghel the Younger, Allegory of War (1640s). Private collection

How Democracies and Autocracies Fight Wars

‘For material, political, and geopolitical reasons, democracies trend towards long-duration, remote, low-exposure, naval, air, and space warfare. An absent-minded reading might leave a reader with a sense of dissonance between democratic tendencies and democratic victories in two world wars. In…

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National Identity in Roger Scruton’s Work
PHILOSOPHY

National Identity in Roger Scruton’s Work

Scruton wrote that the foundation of democracy is not necessarily liberalism but a sense of national loyalty.

Krzysztof Brzechczyn
01.04.2021
We the Natives
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We the Natives

In the age of soft colonization and hybrid neo-colonialism, the war of independence must be fought in the cultural field in the first place.

Márton Békés
01.04.2021
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