Lars Møller

Lars Møller


  • A Disaster Foretold

    November 30, 2024

    A Disaster Foretold

    Image: Public domain. The myth of Laocoön is tragic. In vain, he warned his countrymen in Troy against opening the gate to the colossal wooden horse left behind by Greek invaders. However, he was blinded by the gods who then had him kille...

  • Immigration, the Relapse to Barbarism, and the End of Civilization

    November 16, 2024

    Immigration, the Relapse to Barbarism, and the End of Civilization

    Image: Public domain. The Thirty Years’ War was hard on Europe. So profound were the ramifications of the Christian schism that doubts arose as to whether the wounds could ever be healed. Leaving trails of mutilation and destruction behi...

  • Human Nature and the Course of History

    October 30, 2024

    Human Nature and the Course of History

    Image: Public domain. History is linear, of course, rather than cyclical. What creates an illusion of the latter is the relative stability of human nature — compared to cultural designs — across time and place. A conglomerate of (a...

  • Feast of the Cannibals

    October 14, 2024

    Feast of the Cannibals

    Saturn devouring one of his sons, by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens Three revolutions in France, Russia, and Iran legitimized destruction and violence with a narrative of political persecution, inequality, and social injustice under monarchi...

  • Masochistic Fatalism in Times of Challenge

    September 30, 2024

    Masochistic Fatalism in Times of Challenge

    Image: Public domain. In the spring of 1989, while Eastern Europe prepared for liberation, Iranian imam Ruhollah Khomeini issued a so-called “fatwa” calling for the assassination of Indian-born author — and British citizen ...

  • War Denial in the West

    September 9, 2024

    War Denial in the West

    Since the beginning of time, humans have allowed themselves to get consumed by hatred and involved in bloody conflicts. Although the West, where descendants of faithful churchgoers have largely dispensed with God, imagines that it has put Wars of...

  • Barbarians at the Gate

    August 26, 2024

    Barbarians at the Gate

    A long time ago, Charles Martel, uncrowned ruler of the Franks, led his Christian army to victory over the forces of Arab commander Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi at the Battle of Tours (October 10, 732 C.E.). The defeat of the Muslim invaders, especial...

  • Conspiracy Theories

    August 9, 2024

    Conspiracy Theories

    Attention to the actions and stated or inferred motives of others has survival value in a group setting. If it is wildly exaggerated, however, fueled by an unfounded mistrust of others, paranoia is present. To be (severely) paranoid is to be insane. ...

  • Justice and Defiance

    July 24, 2024

    Justice and Defiance

    How rich and wonderful Christendom could have been. A miracle of aesthetic sublimity and principled ethics. As a matter of fact, a world much like this did once exist: A world in bloom. Around the time, when Theodosius I issued the Edict of Thessa...

  • The Silence of the Bells

    July 10, 2024

    The Silence of the Bells

    Long ago, they were dystopian fantasies. To imagine a world with the night sky lit up by burning cathedrals. A world of Christians fleeing for their lives in plundered, smoking landscapes. A broken Europe suffering the same fate as Constantinople in ...

  • Dealing With Evil

    June 29, 2024

    Dealing With Evil

    For those without a fatal attraction to the extreme, evil is uncomfortable to approach and examine in depth. So how do we best deal with it in order to protect ourselves and posterity?  Allegedly, Israel, Canada, and sixteen European countrie...

  • The Swedish Tragedy

    June 22, 2024

    The Swedish Tragedy

    For Westerners to denounce their own cultural inheritance became a provocative, embarrassing, and ill-conceived political ritual in the late twentieth century. A case in point is the Swedish social democrat Mona Sahlin. A Western counterpart of an...

  • Good and Evil

    June 12, 2024

    Good and Evil

    The moral evil of human action divides people and breeds discord. However, it comes in many guises that may easily deceive us. And for those whose heart is empty, nothing is easier than pretending to be good. Outward piety and renunciation may well m...

  • Claiming Statehood

    May 26, 2024

    Claiming Statehood

    What does it take to make a good society? In the West, not only liberals, but even conservatives of the activist disposition, have tended to think that we have really succeeded in creating a just society, if not a “good society,” in the P...

  • In the Shadow of Giants

    May 18, 2024

    In the Shadow of Giants

    It was the time of trials. The twentieth century tested the strength of civilization to the limit. As Westerners indebted to Roman law and Erasmus of Rotterdam humanism, we barely survived the mortal challenges of Bolshevism and Nazism. Like the anci...

  • The Free World

    May 11, 2024

    The Free World

    Nothing in the balance of power has really changed since World War I. The West needs America for its survival as the free world. However, America for her part needs a leader dedicated to the cause of freedom, and prepared to take on the leadership of...

  • Hypocrisy and Cowardice

    April 28, 2024

    Hypocrisy and Cowardice

    The times are changing. In predominantly Anglican and Protestant parts of the West, where we lead the way in terms of de-Christianization and ideological self-destruction, swearing by political goals such as “redistribution of wealth,” ...

  • Wealth and Redistribution

    April 19, 2024

    Wealth and Redistribution

    Why should any living person dwell on the French Revolution? Well, there is more to it than picturesque Parisian backdrops, powdered wigs, and peculiar costumes. On the other hand, the powerful image of a blood-spattered guillotine may give us a hint...

  • Sins and Atonement

    April 6, 2024

    Sins and Atonement

    If we are to believe our declared enemies, especially those in our midst, we have a lot to answer for in the West. Apart from natural disasters, nothing has been more apt to produce inequality, want, and misery in the world than our civilization. Sup...

  • The Third Fall of Rome

    March 28, 2024

    The Third Fall of Rome

    The world is changing. In the West, we are no longer the same as we once were and doubt our right to be here. Sensing our weakness, “barbarians” from afar multiply at our borders (i.e. along the Rio Grande and in the Balkans). Harbingers ...

  • Modernism Revisited

    March 16, 2024

    Modernism Revisited

    We ought to reflect on the architectural symbols of Western civilization if we actually love it and are determined to preserve it for posterity. There is no reason to assume that we are at the end of history, as it were, so that the survival of civil...

  • The Battle for Beauty

    March 5, 2024

    The Battle for Beauty

    The National Civic Art Society has long championed a revival of classical architecture and undoubtedly exerted influence on policy makers in connection with the Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture. In the proud youth of ...

  • January 20, 2024

    The Case for Interventionism

    At last, America and some of its closest allies decided to strike against the heavily armed rogues who, since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, have disrupted international shipping in the Red Sea. The enemy forces in Yemen are not acting on their own...

  • December 28, 2023

    Political Activism, Institutional Failure, and Anti-Intellectualism in America

    The West shares an old problem with the rest of the world: the constant menace of totalitarian zealots determined to interfere in the lives of others, however they brand themselves ideologically, citing religious or political dogma. What sets the ...

  • November 3, 2023

    Standing up for Civilization

    A year and a half ago, Russian troops invaded Ukraine. And almost a month ago, swarms of irregulars from Gaza suddenly crossed the border into Israel, spreading death and destruction. A “barbarian conspiracy” is once again testing the ...