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Unbuilt Architecture

Brunel’s Unbuilt Capitol

The engineer genius’s scheme in the tradition of Étienne-Louis Boullée. read more

New York

Cricket at Fordham

This charming rustic scene shows children playing cricket on the grounds of St John’s College, Fordham. read more

Italy

Learning to Love Liguria

Genoa is now my home-away-from-home, my number one few-days-free hop-on-a-last-minute-Ryanair favourite. read more

Art

Churchill’s Beguinage

When Marcella Pattyn died in 2013, many marked it as the end of the beguines. I’m not so certain. read more

Democracy

An Old Election in New Utrecht

As New Yorkers head to the polls today it might be worthwhile perusing the archives for reports of elections previous. read more

Virginia

The Long Homecoming of Eliza Monroe

A founding father’s Catholic daughter is reunited with her parents nearly 185 years later. read more

Italy

Compact Grandeur in Genoa

The corner apartment of this historic palazzo has been restored to domestic dignity. read more

Architecture

Swift’s Spire

An abandoned idiosyncratic attempt at a modern cathedral in Liberia’s capital. read more

Death

A Gorgeous Tomb

Some West Country funerary polyhedra. read more

Denmark

Copenhagen’s Courthouse

Christian Frederik Hansen’s monument to civic order. read more

History

A Magnificent Portuguese

The environmentalist, democrat, monarchist, professor, government minister, and landscape architect Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles. read more

On the River

The New Yorker Rows

A front-page view of America’s oldest collegiate athletic competition. read more

Sport

Pope Leo XIV Cricket Trophy

Her Grace the Duchess of Somerset presented the cup to the inaugural winners, Emeriti C.C. read more

France

Les immortels

The Académie française, probably the coolest secular institution in the world. read more

Design

Red Crosses That Weren’t

Everyone knows the Red Cross and the Red Crescent. But there were a few proposals symbols that didn’t make the cut. read more

New York

Riverside Park Volunteer House

A derelict service building has been transformed into an elegant structure the fits effortlessly into its surroundings. read more

Reading

Articles of Note: 5 June 2025

The date of Easter, Mario Vargas Llosa, and the Lebanese space programme. read more

Photography

Mamarazza, R.I.P.

The photographer Marianne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn has died. read more

History

Faithful Shepherd of the Falklands

“Universally liked and respected,” Monsignor Spraggon was to prove “a tower of strength” during the Argentine occupation. read more

Parliament

Proportionality Destroys Representation

Direct representation is the delicate thread that links the people with their government, Tony Benn argued. read more

New York

Sag Harbor Cinema

The old whaling village of Sag Harbor has the perfect little small-town American movie theatre. read more

Architecture

American Exuberant

The confident freehand of interwar American architecture reaches its greatest exuberance in California. read more

Cinema

The Year in Film: 2024

A brief overview of most-but-not-all the films I managed to see on the big screen in the year just gone. read more

America

Jesuit Gothic

Edgar Allan Poe, the Gothic tradition, and the friendly ghosts of Fordham. read more

Virginia

Christ Church

This gem of the American Georgian building arts is an almost miraculous survival. read more

Argentina

Palacio Barolo Revisted

It haunts the mind of novelist Thomas Peermohamed Lambert. read more

New York

Wave Hill

Every few years this Bronx garden gets ‘rediscovered’ by outsiders. read more

Reading

Articles of Note: 15 September 2025

Summer jobs, the CIA, and the everyday conservatism of old-school New England. read more

Middle East

Druze Stirrings

The secretive sect that helped topple Assad. read more

Events

Our Lady, Protectoress of Bavaria

A Solemn Mass will be celebrated on the feast at Warwick Street Church. read more

Argentina

How to Make a Pope

The Argentine world that formed the late Pope Francis. read more

Reading

Articles of Note: 8 April 2025

Rifling through Robert A. Caro’s archives, granny killing, Camille Paglia, London’s decline, and Richard Nixon. read more

Chile

Teutonic Takeover

What the Chilean presidential election tells us about Germans in South America. read more

Literature

Katalin Bánffy-Jelen, R.I.P.

Daughter to and translator of the great Hungarian writer. read more

Internet

Substack Cusackiensis

It is important to claim territory. read more

Sport

In the Courts of the Lord

The grandest indoor tennis court America has ever seen. read more

Invitation

Crux Alba Journal Launch

Please come to the launch of our new journal on Tuesday 18 February 2025. read more

Reading

Articles of Note: 27 January 2025

Patriarchs, pantheons, and High Christmas cheer. read more

Design

Spooks’ Crown

MI5 have changed swapped their crown round. read more

New York

A Christmas Gift from the Governor

Some excellent news for the Knickerbocker Greys. read more

France

Monsieur Bayrou

It is always worth consulting the sages for their counsels. In this case, Maurice Druon. read more

Reading

Articles of Note: 12 December 2024

Luttwak, Niall Gooch on railways, Seb Milbank on Smithfields, and more. read more

England

Make Merry in thy Festival

A report on England’s parish churches, and the return of college grace. read more

Nederland

Amsterdam

Is die Amsterdamse stadsargitektuur die mees hemels in die wêreld? read more

Law

The Lithe Efficiency of the Old Constitution

A wonderful glimpse of the old days in the memoirs of the late Lord Waddington. read more

Reading

Articles of Note: 17 September 2024

The dolce vita glory days of Beirut Airport, the fall of the Evening Standard, and labour-friendly conservatism. read more

Faith

Israel’s Hebrew-speaking Catholics

In Jerusalem I interviewed Fr Piotr Zelazko of the St James Vicariate. read more

Reading

Articles of Note: 20 May 2024

Singapore’s state, Edinburgh’s old parliament, and Stanford’s war on its student life. read more

Design

Telephone Kiosk No. 2

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s monument of street furniture. read more

Excerpt

The last of its vintage

Jan Morris, the Hadhramaut, and Tenzing Norgay’s claret guzzling. read more

Art

Patrick in Parliament

Robert Anning-Bell’s mosaic of Saint Patrick in Central Lobby, the Palace of Westminster. read more

Reading

Articles of Note: 13 March 2024

Our latest revue of interesting things elsewhere. read more

History

Taken on Trust

Even dogs benefited from a high-trust society, as this story shared by Roger Knight shows. read more

London

A Happy Home in Maida Vale

The former residence of Christianna Brand. read more

History

Messing About in Old New York

Celebrating B Company’s birthday in style at the Seventh Regiment Mess in May 1940. read more

Architecture

ICAA Videos on Architecture

Lectures and videos promoting traditional architecture. read more

Musiek

Die kleine dorpie Betlehem

Phillips Brooks het ’n klein geskenk aan die wêreld gegee. lees meer

London

Whitechapel Library

What to do with a former church building. read more

Reading

Articles of Note: 29 January 2024

The Scots tongue, ancient forests, and golden California. read more

Events

Architectural Exhibitions

Two tales of building Bloomsbury. read more

Reading

Articles of Note: 6 January 2024

On: Welsh, Algeria, beer, coins, monastic retreats, Fife churches, and Irish dogs. read more

Academia

Regnum, Ecclesia, Studium

The threefold division of the world according to the old Scots sages. read more

Politics

De Gaulle on the Market

“Don’t be blind to the market,” de Gaulle warned, but “you should not imagine that it will solve every problem on its own.” read more

Parliamentaria

Horseshoe for Quebec’s Salon bleu

An upcoming renovation will change the seating plan in Quebec’s parliament chamber. read more

London

St Paul’s: Before and After the War

While the dome survived, St Paul’s Cathedral did suffer bomb damage during the war. read more

The Ukraine

The Ukrainians’ Secret Weapon

As revealed by the bibliophile ‘Incunabula’ on Twitter. read more

The Hudson

Irving’s Sunnyside

“The location is a most delightfully secluded spot, eminently suited to the musings and mastery of mind…” read more

New York

St Vincent Ferrer

The ninetieth anniversary of the consecration of the high altar of this Dominican church. read more

Politics

Gaullist California

The Golden State’s lost variety of “Cal-Gaullism”. read more

London

A Night Litany for London

The Tuesday evening devotions of the Guild of Our Lady of Warwick Street. read more

Humour

‘We trust no one would ever think of such a thing’

Punch on how to treat a foreign propagandist. read more

Cinema

The Pale Blue Eye

Film review of this eerie mystery set in 1830s West Point. read more

Tradition

Mexican Diplomats

Civil uniform of the Mexican republic at the coronation of Nicholas II. read more

Design

Emblem of the Valencian Courts

A modern re-working of a 15th-century design. read more

Church

Advent Missa Cantata at St George’s

A Missa Cantata will be sung this Saturday. read more

Scotland

St Margaret Relic Heads to St Andrews

Bone fragment of Scotland’s saintly queen will be venerated at ancient university. read more

Newspapers

Decline at The Villager

The visual decline of this once-great Greenwich Village weekly. read more

History

Lafayette at the Seventh

The French Republic’s gift to a New York regiment. read more

New York

Harlem Reformed Dutch Church

This Manhattan congregation dates back to 1660. read more

Words

Mistranslating Apostates

On the Spanish word for ‘Galilean’. read more

The Orient

The Situation in the Far East

A century-old classic updated for today. read more

Reading

The death of The Monarch

John Ritzema wonders if there are any Austrian lessons from the demise of the sovereign. read more

Design

Cypher Shift

The King has released his new emblem. read more

Southwark

LMS Quarterly Mass at St George’s

A Missa Cantata will be sung this Saturday. read more

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