At the heart of Thomas Molnar's work was the problem of authority and how it might be sustained in a world where power had been shorn of its sacral dimension.
Tag: Joseph de Maistre
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Books in Brief: October 2022
Short reviews of Major Works, Vol. I, by Joseph de Maistre, and The Dumbest Generation Grows Up, by Mark Bauerlein.
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Equality’s Rising Flood
The obsession with equality or "equity," transgenderism, racial politics and the rest of Western social wreckage since the 1950s was foreshadowed by the events of the French Revolution.
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The Revolution and Modern France
The myth of the French Revolution inherently perpetuates an emotional, moral, and intellectual schism within a great nation. It has been poisoning the bonds among members of the French polity for over two centuries.
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Three Classic Critics of the Revolution: A Bastille-Day Meditation (Part II)
Edmund Burke was not the only great early critic of the French Revolution. De Maistre and Taine also developed strong, distinct criticisms of the revolutionaries in the period immediately following the Terror.