02Jul From Romano Guardini’s “The End of the Modern World,” 1957 July 2, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog “From the standpoint of the bureaucracy in charge, any resistance on the part of those mistreated is equivalent to revolt,...Read more
25Apr From Stumbling Block to Cornerstone April 25, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog Reflection by Gil Bailie When I look back over the more than 30 years during which I have explored, and...Read more
29Mar “Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.” – T. S. Eliot March 29, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog Saint John Henry Newman: “How are we to look at things? This is the question which all persons of observation...Read more
14Feb Valentine’s Day February 14, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog The German poet and cultural historian, Rudolf Borchardt (1877-1945): What they want, they cannot give.And people only give what they...Read more
20Jan Logos Spermaticos: Moral and Mental Nulification January 20, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog Words are for propagation. All cultures propagandize in that non-pejorative sense, and when they are no longer willing to do...Read more
10Jan Romano Guardini on the Role of the Nation January 10, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog In the face of a powerful globalist movement, whose siren songs are as anthropologically dubious as are those now undermining...Read more
22Dec Christmas – awaiting a birth in unpropitious times December 22, 2023 Gil Bailie Blog In past years in celebration of Christmas we have shared a short excerpt from the Hoover Institutions Uncommon Knowledge series...Read more
21Dec The Spirit of the Age December 21, 2023 Gil Bailie Blog “Sometimes, as in the cases of the iconoclasm and destruction of art that attended both the Protestant Reformation and the...Read more
06Dec It’s Going to be Very Difficult . . . December 6, 2023 Gil Bailie Blog The sidewalk counselor had been standing on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood downtown, praying for about 45 minutes;...Read more
28Nov A Civilizational Crisis November 28, 2023 Gil Bailie Blog Bari Weiss delivered a lecture at The Federalist Society * on November 10, 2023, in which she gave what I...Read more
From Romano Guardini’s “The End of the Modern World,” 1957
From Stumbling Block to Cornerstone
“Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.” – T. S. Eliot
Valentine’s Day
Logos Spermaticos: Moral and Mental Nulification
Romano Guardini on the Role of the Nation
Christmas – awaiting a birth in unpropitious times
The Spirit of the Age
It’s Going to be Very Difficult . . .
A Civilizational Crisis