Leadership

The deathbed advice Louis XIV gave his great-grandson and heir

December 3, 2012

December 1 – The Virgin Mary appears to General Gaston de Sonis after his army’s losses at Patay promising that France would survive

November 29, 2012

Siege of Jasna Góra, November 28-December 27, 1655

November 29, 2012

Louis XVIII’s policy of peaceful coexistence paves the way for the French Republic

November 29, 2012

November 26 – How a Catholic Queen gave Spain its Golden Age

November 26, 2012

November 27 – The king who made France “First-born daughter of the Church”

November 26, 2012

Democratic Ideological Gains in the First Forty Years of the American Republic

November 19, 2012

November 16 – St. Margaret of Scotland

November 15, 2012

Henry the Navigator Inaugurates the Age of Discovery

November 12, 2012

November 13 – Grand Master of the Order of Christ

November 12, 2012

November 10 – First Pope to Be Called “Great”

November 8, 2012

D-Day – General Patton’s advice to his son on what it takes to win in war

November 5, 2012

Prince Eugen of Savoy crushes the Turks at Zenta

November 1, 2012

November 3 – The Battle of Mentana

November 1, 2012

The American Revolution: The work of elites

October 29, 2012

A nobleman was expected to be a symbol for his troops

October 25, 2012

Ludwig von Mises: The dedication of elites built our civilization

October 22, 2012

October 21 – Charles “The Hammer”

October 18, 2012

St. John Bosco taught his boys to love social inequalities

October 18, 2012

How Marie Antoinette gave prestige to the potato – and a potato recipe from the French royal court

October 15, 2012

Bayard’s honor under siege

October 15, 2012

Family trusts and foundations

October 11, 2012

October 11 – He dared step into the gap during the crisis

October 11, 2012

October 13 – King Confessor

October 11, 2012

Lifting our Gaze Toward the Alienated Elites

October 8, 2012

October 9 – Superb and valiant knight

October 8, 2012

Lepanto: Turkish might buckles in the grandest naval battle of History

October 4, 2012

Traditional Associations of Other Ethnic Groups

October 4, 2012

October 3 – Military turned monk

October 1, 2012

At age 16, George Washington’s intimate friendship with the Fairfax family leads him to write out 110 “Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation”

September 27, 2012

Associations of Descendants of the European Nobility

September 27, 2012

September 27 – These exemplary nobles personified virtue

September 27, 2012

Malicious tongues lash at Empress Sissi

September 20, 2012

The private character of hereditary associations

September 17, 2012

September 17 – Noble calm in all controversy, even when correcting the pope

September 17, 2012

Traditional Elites in Other Social Categories

September 10, 2012

A Requiem for Manners

September 3, 2012

At age 17, the aristocratic Washington was used to the harshness of pioneer life

August 30, 2012

Honor and chivalry in the U.S. Military Code of Conduct

August 30, 2012

At the Apogee of Today’s Religious, Moral, and Ideological Crisis: A Propitious Moment for the Action of the Nobility and the Traditional Elites

August 27, 2012

August 28 – Restless Heart

August 27, 2012

August 20 – The Knights Templar owe him

August 20, 2012

The Aristocratic Carters of Virginia

August 16, 2012

Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation

August 13, 2012

A sword’s symbolism

August 9, 2012

Many members of the Society of the Cincinnati were killed during the Terror

August 9, 2012

August 11 – As soldiers scaled the walls of the convent, she met them with ciborium in hand and put them to flight

August 9, 2012

August 10 – His sister founded the Conceptionists

August 9, 2012

The Viennese nobility feeds Vienna’s poor with Christian charity

August 6, 2012

The main elements of the common good of the intermediate bodies, the region, and the State are already present in the individual and the family—the fruitful family: a small world

August 6, 2012

August 6 – He told his assassins “God does not die!”

August 6, 2012

Absenteeism and omission: sin of the elites

August 2, 2012

General Lee’s one rule for students: “Be a gentleman”

July 30, 2012

From the individual to the family, from the family to the gens, and finally to the tribe—the process toward the foundation of the civitas—the State is born

July 30, 2012

The State as a perfect society—its sovereignty and majesty—its supreme nobility

July 26, 2012

Sir Winston Churchill’s Ancestral Grandeur

July 5, 2012

All classes should tend to perfection

July 2, 2012

Toads and communism

June 18, 2012

Mahomet II conquered Constantinople but could not subdue Scanderbeg and Albania

May 24, 2012

Luxembourg Royal Family on pilgrimage to Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted

May 14, 2012

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