Interview with Spe Salvi Institute: Nationalism and the West

The good people at the Spe Salvi Institute were kind enough to have me on their podcast last month to discuss some of my favourite themes: patriotism, nationalism, and the decline of the West.

You can find the interview here:

The manifesto of the Spe Salvi Institute is worth reading carefully; the first sentence alone speaks to our predicament:

A cloud is overshadowing the West — a cloud of despair. 

Judicious quotations from Charles Péguy — a greatly admired figure here at Lament for the Nations — follow. Read the whole thing.