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The Liberal Church in Arms

September 26, 2019
Author: Chilton Williamson

Evelyn Waugh characterized the Second World War as the modern age in arms. What we currently observe in “the Anglosphere” –as the French call it—in Washington and Westminster is the church of liberalism in arms. On the American side of the Atlantic, it is at war with President Trump; on the European one, with Brexit…. Read More

Écrasez l’infâme!

September 25, 2019
Author: Chilton Williamson

Voltaire’s infamous summons, considered a thrilling call to battle two centuries and a half ago, was at least more stimulating than his rather incompetent and very dull little novel Candide,  read today by almost no one though the Bernstein opera is occasionally resurrected. For Voltaire, “l’infâme”was the Church of Rome and the civilization to which it… Read More