thoughts in and out of season
Material presented as lecture but not put in print.
The following is a talk I gave July 10, 2023 at the Roman Forum conference in Gardone Riviera, Italy:
The Italian Catholic philosopher Augusto Del Noce (1910-1989) is not well-known in America, mostly because his writings only started to become … Read more
Here’s my talk from the July 2022 Roman Forum Summer Symposium. The theme of the conference was the Great Reset, and my talk was on why it had to happen.
… Read moreThe “Great Reset” comes out of very long-term trends in
Here’s another Roman Forum talk, this one from the 2019 Summer Symposium, held in Gardone, Italy, on July 8-19, 2019. It’s about the political, social, and moral black hole we seem to have fallen into:
… Read more1 Liberalism
Nothing human
I deliver a lecture on how Catholic traditionalists look to non-traditionalists at the Roman Forum 2021 conference.
Here’s a talk I gave to the H. L. Mencken Club a couple weeks ago, published at Crisis Magazine.
[I gave the following talk at the 2014 conference of The H. L. Mencken Club.]
The Left doesn’t like the idea of human nature. It tells them they’re not free to do what they want. From a factual perspective it … Read more
The following is a talk delivered at the 2011 Conference of the H. L. Mencken Club.
Why has American conservatism been such a flop? It finds it impossible to define what it wants, stick with it, and defend it. The … Read more
Here’s a talk I gave yesterday at the annual conference of the H. L. Mencken Club.
… Read moreThe title of my talk is PC: The Cultural Antichrist.
It’s an odd title, but political correctness is an odd tendency. It’s a
I’ve attached the text of a talk I gave at the H. L. Mencken Club conference.