Category: CULTURE

Culture in Crisis

What the COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals about the West and Its Prospects Introduction It has been two years since we began to hear the first reports of a new virus in China. Infections then spread at a rate that seemed sometimes to outrun the rumours themselves. Within weeks, we all knew

‘Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues’*

Reflections on The Woke versus the West:Awkward Questions for a Progressive Age by John O’Sullivan During my student days in Oxford the distinguished poet Robert Graves was the university’s ‘Poet in Residence’. The duties of the person voted into this position did not seem unduly onerous in those days, but

WHERE DO WE COME FROM?
WHAT ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING?
2021

A few years ago, I spent time at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with five friends, from America, England, Poland, the Netherlands, and Germany, respectively. When we reached the painting by Gauguin, entitled Where Do We Come from? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, we looked at one

Trust, Hope, and Rebirth

Cardinal Péter Erdő in Interview with Zoltán Pásztor Pope Francis has referred quite warmly to his encounter with hundreds of thousands of Hungarian pilgrims in Csíksomlyó (Șumuleu, Romania) in June 2019, and he was deeply touched by the love emanating from the faithful in Budapest in September 2021. We asked