Submitted by Olivia Kroth Parallel to the events of the Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II wrote his private diary. In spite of the dramatic political situation his “Journal intime” is very intimate indeed, very private, hardly taking notice of what was happening around him in the outside world. He began to write in 1881 and […]
Jefferson invited me back to have a discussion on traditionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, the philosophy of the state and its relation to economics, Orthodoxy theology and worldviews, atheistic arguments and apologetics, the moon landing and much more! Definitely a great conversation.
It was an election that pitted a challenge versus a tired status quo, opportunism versus seizing rising public moods in both France, Europe and the wider west, it was about patriotism versus globalism.
In each of these categories the former won. The embodiment of this victory is Emmanuel Macron, but that’s all he is: an embodiment.
To paraphrase T. S. Eliot, Macron is a hollow man, a stuffed man….a headpiece filled with straw.
Eliot’s poem ends with a ominous prophecy,
“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper”.
