Netflix's reinvention of Prince Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” turns old Sicily into a cruel hellscape and, thereby, loses the thing that made the original novel great: A nostalgia for the traditional Sicilian society that Italian nationalism crushed.
Tag: ancien régime
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Remembering Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Corrêa de Oliveira nursed a desire to restore the traditional Christian principles that have been the basis for the political and social order known as Christendom.
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What We Are Reading: April 2024
Short reviews of On Resistance to Evil by Force, by Ivan Ilyin, and Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert.
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The Trouble with Gender Studies
At New College, we recently ditched the gender studies program, which did not benefit the college in any way but was, in fact, doing great harm.