American republicanism and Toryism have traditionally been portrayed as being at odds. Is this really accurate? Continue reading Republican Toryism

The utopia promises us the City of God in the temporal. Thousands of years prior, Augustine suggested a more realistic approach. Continue reading Augustine’s Christian Realism

The duty and virtue that made the early American Republic flourish have been lost to the ignorance of time. Continue reading Where Hath Duty Gone?

Many attribute the consequences of modernity to the destruction of sacred order. The reality is darker – a Cult of the Self. Continue reading The Sacred Orders of Secular Society

As the American Right undergoes an identity crisis between Integralism and the Anglo-American tradition, Orestes Brownson’s interpersonal struggle of weighing both helps us answer the question. Continue reading The Postliberal Constitutionalism of Orestes Brownson

The Enlightenment concept of the State has clouded the Aristotelian and Pauline understanding of it as a dynamic organism, much like man. Continue reading The Body & Soul of a Nation

Berated by historicists like Russell Kirk for his dedication to improvement, modern conservatives fail to recognize the aim of Adams’ improvement towards a Christian understanding of national and moral virtue. Continue reading John Quincy Adams: Statesman of Virtue & Duty

Woodrow Wilson rejected the Anglo-American tradition for a Godless Hegelianism that has fueled our Epicurean moment. Continue reading America’s Post-Enlightenment Epoch

The ancient Greek traditions of thumos (spirit) and olikos (familial duties), are what undergird our civil society. The question is, what do we have constitute them? Continue reading Of Spirit & Tradition

As social science increasingly diverges from the most common measurements, the field of economics is at risk of transforming into systematic theology. Continue reading Economists: The High Priests of Liberalism