Cry Wolf by Paul Lake

Paul Lake's political fable, Cry Wolf, is a marvel. I have read dozens of books out loud to the family but never have we read a book that generated as much discussion. And not only that, it was a real page turner. The fable tackles some difficult topics: immigration, political correctness, democracy, and religion. I have a feeling this book will serve as fodder for all kinds of future discussion as well. Must reading.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beautiful."

To repeat the shibboleth, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," is to say, "I, too, am a modern." The premodern man says, "Beauty is in the eye of the beautiful." He knows that ugly eyes - undisciplined, uneducated, vicious eyes - are blind. (from Pure by Mark Anderson, a fantastic little book)

Aphorisms on Liberalism

Either man has rights, or the people is sovereign. The simultaneous assertion of two mutually exclusive theses is what people have called liberalism.

Liberalism proclaims the right of the individual to degrade oneself, provided one’s degradation does not impede the degradation of one’s neighbor.

Modern liberalism no longer defends any of the “rights of man” except the right to consume.

Today’s conservatives are nothing more than liberals who have been ill-treated by democracy.

Tolerance consists of a firm decision to allow them to insult everything we seek to love and respect, as long as they do not threaten our material comforts. Modern, liberal, democratic, progressive man, as long as they do not step on his calluses, will let them degrade his soul.

A small sample of the aphorisms of Columbian reactionary Nicolas Gomez Davila

"The Loftiest Function of Art"

"The loftiest function of art is to mediate these two reciprocal spheres of being, to give access to the Divine in the realm of culture." Fr. Silouan Justiniano in The Road to Emmaus Vol. XIV, No. 3