Today, November 15, is the one-hundred and fourth birthday of Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a Catholic aristocrat and officer of the German Wehrmacht who led the anti-Nazi resistance within the German war machine. On the 21st of July, 1944, this man, along with two other German army officers, Henning von Treskow and [...]
Intimations of Eternity: George MacDonald, Charles Williams and Dorothy Sayers on the Medieval Imagination
October 31, 2011 By
Tirso de Molina's Tragic Rake
September 26, 2011 By
Everyone has his or her notion of what constitutes a relaxing evening. For me, among other things, it is an occasional trip to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles to watch and experience an operatic performance. This weekend, neither time nor finances permitted such a venture, so I got a DVD version of Mozart’s [...]
Charles Coulombe on "The Decline and Fall of the Anglo Empire"
September 5, 2011 By
Mr. Coulombe’s latest offering on Taki’s Magazine takes as its starting point the recent bill signed into law by our “undead” governor and moves on to explore a more fundamental issue about illegal immigration: the culture of “self-indulgence and sloth” espoused by the Anglo elite. In the words of the new Archbishop of Los Angeles: [...]
The Battle of Roncesvalles: History and Legend
August 16, 2011 By
Today, August 15, marks the 1,233rd anniversary of the Battle of Roncesvalles, a pitch battle fought by a contingent of Charlemagne’s army led by Roland, the prefect of the Breton March, against a Basque attack on the Roncesvalles pass while Roland’s men were on the retreat. This battle gave birth, about four-hundred years later, to [...]
Archduke Otto von Habsburg: A Belated Eulogy
August 6, 2011 By
Passion and Resurrection: Reflections on the Death of a Friendship and the Death of a Friend
June 1, 2011 By
(I wrote this piece a year ago, and since then, there has been a reconciliation with the friend in question, though this friend lives now a half a world away. I publish it as it is) there hath pass’d away a glory from the earth.-William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality As I write this piece I [...]
Royal Duty: The King Behind the Speech
April 4, 2011 By
Bach as Theologian
March 21, 2011 By
I couldn’t let the 326th birthday of the great Kappelmeister go by without some short reflection on my favorite choral piece, the great St. Matthew Passion. As a devout Lutheran, Bach heavily meditated on the passion of Christ, influenced heavily by Martin Luther’s theology of the cross. For Luther, Christ as the “suffering servant” is [...]
Jews and Arabs in Search of Wisdom: Two Book Reviews
February 23, 2011 By
Scholars and students who have worked their way through Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s and Oliver Leaman’s masterfully edited work, A History of Islamic Philosophy (Routledge, 2001) will, if they had bother to read the two introductions by Nasr and Leaman respectively, come away with an appreciation for how difficult it was to define the parameters of [...]
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