Returning in 2026— The Chivalry Book Club January: Two Swords of Christ (Ibrahim) February: The Four Cardinal Virtues (Pieper) March: The Book of the Order of Chivalry (Lull) April: Ivanhoe (Scott) May: The Last Crusade (Carroll) June: Always With Honor (Wrangel) July: Idylls of the King (Tennyson) August: The Conquest of New Spain (Bernal Diaz) September: Beowulf October: The War in the Vendée (Hill) November: Religion and the Rise of Western Culture (Dawson) December: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I'm aiming for a proper mix of history, literature, virtue ethics, and more, medieval and modern. The plan is to read the books and gather for Spaces at the end of the month to discuss. (Rumor has it that Raymond Ibrahim will be joining us at the end of January to talk his new book.) Some of these conversations might be open to all, but most will be for subscribers to the Chivalry Guild. We will also have more informal weekly Spaces for subscribers to discuss all things chivalric and chivalry-adjacent (virtue, vitality, history, politics, strategy, great men, etc). Sign up if interested and stay tuned!

🚨 Three months of FREE RENT. A security deposit. Monthly gift cards until food stamps kick in. That’s the offer to Afghan families relocating to St. Louis through the International Institute of St. Louis. The organization’s broader plan? Reshape the city’s demographic future through more immigrant resettlement—to “reverse decades of population decline.” This nonprofit reported $33.3 MILLION in government grants in 2024. Its strategic blueprint also calls for funding changes to “insulate the agency from political and economic circumstances”—while “shaping the public discourse around immigration.”

Falstaff: “…banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.” Hal; “I do, I will.”

Of all the things a person could worship, imagine choosing tolerance.

Too many people mistake prudence and caution. They are not the same. Prudence sometimes dictates the need for caution. But prudence also dictates that certain risks are worth running. In a lot of cases not going for it is more dangerous. Prudence tells you what's what.

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If your enemies aren't afraid, what are you even doing?

The alliance between FDR and Stalin is one of the most overlooked historical facts of the past 100 years. Constantly downplayed or rationalized. It's a missing puzzle piece that explains the modern world.

Alternatively, the dragons still prowl but have morphed into DEI administrators, human resourcists, Hollywood producers, lady judges, financiers, etc.

Ezekiel 18:26-28: "When the just turn away from justice to do evil and die, on account of the evil they did they must die. But if the wicked turn from the wickedness they did and do what is right and just, they save their lives; since they turned away from all the sins they committed, they shall live; they shall not die."

No dragons to fight or armed pilgrimages to undertake—the quest before young men starts with just surviving & overcoming the ghey bureaucratic spiritual war machinery that exists to drive someone like Zach to hopelessness. That is the quest. And then helping others do the same. RIP.