Civilization
Civilization
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Urbanism and Architecture
The Town That Charles Built
Before King Charles III inherited Britain’s throne, he was a prince with stron...
We Bought A Crumbling Chateau — And That’s How It Looks Now
A couple purchases a 14th-century Chateau on the French countryside on the cheap...
America’s Lost Classical Architecture
Despite being a relatively young nation, the United States of America has a weal...
Why Architecture Is Political
"Architecture is not just the expression of our positive political values, but a...
Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture
And if you don’t, why you should…...
The Timeless Way of Building
In this mesmerizing and accessible book, Christopher Alexander describes a theor...
Designing a New Old Home: Part 1
Simon Sarris writes about what it takes to build something beautiful from nothin...
By Simon Sarris
Art and Aesthetics
The Death of Marat: The Paintings of Jacques-Louis David
Analyzing a painting is like analyzing any other document. A keen eye is require...
By Jake M.
Museums Are Hiding the Past
'Upon entering the exhibit, audiences are confronted with a statement on “Emot...
Into Great Beauty
"Have we lost the ability to see beauty, or is this desire laying dormant, waiti...
Bret Easton Ellis: ‘My Generation Wanted to be Offended’
Famous author and podcaster Bret Easton Ellis joined The UnHerd Club to talk Ge...
Screen Epics For The Human Soul
More modest historical films often feel incomplete, insufficient; they demand sc...
Civilisation by Kenneth Clark
In the final moments of Sir Kenneth Clark's wonderful late 1960s documentary ser...
The Left’s War Against Beauty and Classical Music (feat. Andrew Balio)
Andrew Balio joins Moment of Truth to talk the influence and legacy of classical...
Environment
The War Against The American West (ft. William Perry Pendley)
In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with William ...
Land, Water, Air, Body. Conserving What Matters (feat. Micah Meadowcroft) | Moment of Truth Ep. 4
In today's episode, Saurabh, Nick, and esteemed guest Micah Meadowcroft discuss ...
Look Back For The Future Of Conservative Environmentalism
Micah Meadowcroft charts the long history of environmentalism on the right from ...
The Saint of the City Goes Rural: Dorothy Day and the Life of the Land
Dorothy Day’s vision was one of learning from the land, that the cities might ...
By Myles Werntz
Personnel
One Way Government
Any future leader on the Right serious about fixing our problems must start by a...
What Exactly Do We Want? (feat. Saurabh Sharma)
American Moment President Saurabh Sharma talks to Nick about his background, our...
A Grand Strategy of Restraint Needs a ‘Counter Elite’
The American foreign policy establishment prefers meddling around the globe beca...
America’s Collapsing Meritocracy Is a Recipe for Revolt
Chinese history shows what happens when an old system loses its force....
Madness in the Ruling Class: Who is leading our country?
In this episode of Feudal Future, guests Julius Krein and Aaron Renn join the sh...
The Elites We Need
American Moment President Saurabh Sharma joins First Things' Contributing Editor...
By First Things
James Burnham’s Managerial Elite
Krein explores the thought of James Burnham and its development throughout his l...
By Julius Krein
Moment of Truth
The Institutions Deserved It (feat. Dr. Yuval Levin)
Yuval Levin joins Moment of Truth to talk the loss of public faith in institutio...
What Exactly Do We Want? (feat. Saurabh Sharma)
American Moment President Saurabh Sharma talks to Nick about his background, our...
Christianity, Technology, and Human Flourishing (feat. James Poulos)
James Poulos joins Moment of Truth to discuss his book “Human, Forever,” Chr...
Restoring Faith in the West (feat. Yoram Hazony)
Yoram Hazony joins Moment of Truth to talk about his new book, ‘Conservatism: ...
The Left’s War Against Beauty and Classical Music (feat. Andrew Balio)
Andrew Balio joins Moment of Truth to talk the influence and legacy of classical...
The Straussian In A Suit Would Like You To Wake Up (feat. Michael Anton)
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Michael Anton, author of "T...
Why Everything Has Been Terrible Since 1971 (feat. Zak Slayback)
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Zak Slayback, a career and ...
Technology
America Can’t Sit Out of the New Space Race
Paired with careful diplomacy and the expansion of a space-specific rules-based ...
Christianity, Technology, and Human Flourishing (feat. James Poulos)
James Poulos joins Moment of Truth to discuss his book “Human, Forever,” Chr...
The Case for American Seriousness
"We don't need aging institutions to pave the way for 21st-century dynamism. Wha...
Human, Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War
Technology once made a god of America. Now America is technology's slave. What h...
By James Poulos
A New Golden Age of Governance
"We are not anywhere near a fully developed society—we are mostly not even dev...
By Wolf Tivy
Back to the Future
Peter Thiel reviews Ross Douthat's The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victi...
By Peter Thiel
Theory
Capitalism Killed the American West
"In all of his writings he is resistant to the idea that settlers and small-time...
By James Pogue
The End of Industrial Society
The Industrial Revolution stopped before it was ever completed. The aftermath is...
By Samo Burja
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the wor...
By Harold Bloom
The Origins of Western Civilization
The first part in a free eight-part series hosted by Victor Davis Hanson, The Od...
The Foundationalist Manifesto: The Politics of Future Past
Charles Haywood at The Worthy House offers a way out of liberalism, presenting a...
Why is Everything Liberal?
Cardinal preferences explain why all institutions are woke, writes Richard Hanan...
Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster
"With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are th...
Institutions
The Grapple for the Gavel
Bradley Devlin, writer at The American Conservative, brings readers inside the f...
‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in’
"To highlight the risk of consultants, her current theme, Mazzucato goes back to...
By Henry Mance
Regime Change, American Style: The Real Story of Watergate
Nixon’s enemies indulged in a retrospective moralization of Watergate, obfusca...
Japan Was the Future, But it’s Stuck in the Past
We're not sure we agree with the author's solution (re: immigration), but his an...
The Institutions Deserved It (feat. Dr. Yuval Levin)
Yuval Levin joins Moment of Truth to talk the loss of public faith in institutio...
Institutional Failure: Why Civilizations Collapse
We have to evaluate the perceptions that mint facts and theory, not merely perus...
By Samo Burja
How San Francisco Became A Failed City
"There is a sense that, on everything from housing to schools, San Francisco has...
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