Emeline McClellan
May 17, 2022
Is Politics Dirty?
Five years ago, I liked to call politics ‘the dirtiest intellectual endeavour.’ I used to wonder how my friends could discuss Donald...


Penelope Perkins
May 10, 2022
Why We Should All Love America
Hayward, Steven F. 2022. M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom. Encounter Books. 400 pgs. Since coming to England, I’ve...


Sam Bidwell
May 4, 2022
Magna Illusio: The Classical Inheritance and the Importance of Myth
In a more confident age, any conservative worth his salt would have accepted that the West could trace its legacy back, via the...


Penelope Perkins
May 2, 2022
Note From the Editor
'Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies...

Penelope Perkins
Mar 2, 2022
A Case for Old Translations
Yesterday I had the immense good fortune to read a work of ‘colonized literature.’ At least, I suppose that’s what people would call the...


Sophia Ivanova
Mar 1, 2022
Avoiding the Dreadful Fate of Russia
The infamous Russian experience of sorrow will deepen this century. It is not the case that we are responsible for the disaster: most of...


Ksenia Grigoryevna
Feb 25, 2022
On Conserving and Creating (+ Ukrainian borscht recipe)
Conservatism is, and always has been, a nebulous concept at every possible level of life and politics. The modern Conservative Party here...


Penelope Perkins
Feb 21, 2022
Book Review: Agamben’s State of Exception
Agamben, Giorgio. 2005. State of Exception. Translated by Kevin Attell. Chicago. Five years ago, if we’d been handed a crystal ball and...


Penelope Perkins
Feb 2, 2022
Socrates and the Cultural Conservative
For many denizens of the twenty-first century, it’s no longer obvious that the conservative temperament is a particularly nice one....


Ekaterina Pushnaya
Jan 31, 2022
Digital Inheritance Should Exist
There is still a huge gap in modern legislation. Ownership of electronic libraries is password-protected, take streaming services...

