Carroll Quigley, 1910–1977
3,231 words
Where do you come from white boy, what is your land
Everybody else knows where they come from
You don’t know your place, you never did, you never can
You can’t find a place in this land
–“White Boy,” Paul Kanter and Grace Slick
The Dilemma Read more …
, trans. Mac Linscott Ricketts (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2010) covers the years 1941 to 1945 when Eliade was a Romanian diplomat in Portugal. It is thus a prequel to Eliade’s four-volume Journal (
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, and 
), which begins with his arrival in Paris in September of 1945 and continues for the rest of his life.
Why Christianity Can’t Save Us
French translation here
The conservative philosopher Russell Kirk wrote:
We must remind ourselves, to begin, that culture arises from the cult: out of the religious bond and the sense of the sacred grow any civilization’s agriculture, its common defense, its orderly towns, Read more …