According to Holmes, Churchill bullied his widowed mother for cash unmercifully, even charging to her the cost of his wreath on the grave of his beloved nursemaid Mrs. Everest. At 19 he nearly accidentally killed his 13-year-old brother Jack while out rowing on Lake Lausanne, and afterwards made himself out to be the hero of [...]

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Yeats grew up in County Sligo and London. In 1884, while studying art in Dublin,Yeats met the poet George Russell, and together they founded the Dublin Hermetic Society, dedicated to the study of magic and ritual. Simultaneous with the beginnings of his exploration of the occult,Yeats also embraced the cause of Celtic nationalism. England had [...]

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At times like this my mind wanders back to Michael Oakeshott, the greatest British political philosopher of the twentieth century. He was born over a century ago now, and lived until about the age of 90. An old friend of mine is writing his biography.
Oakeshott was a skeptical conservative, not a partisan. He usually voted [...]

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Roger Scruton is perhaps the most prominent conservative intellectual in the United Kingdom and since his groundbreaking study “A Defense of Conservatism” was published 25 years ago, his influence has grown in the United States as well. A philosopher by training, Mr. Scruton has written widely on topics ranging from a defense of fox hunting [...]

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Carlo Terracciano, the Italian New Right philosopher and political scientist, has died. Some of his work, translated into English, can be found here:
Eurasian Movement

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Critics seemed even more threatened by Muggeridge’s passionate, unapologetic stands against the reigning ideologies of the modern west: communism, socialism and liberalism. In the 1950s, long before others came to the same conclusion, Muggeridge wrote that modern liberalism led to these more radical forms of government and therefore nurtured the decline of the west. He [...]

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