PGMantel

Raised in a home filled with books on Western civilization, P.G. Mantel became a lover of history at an early age. An amateur writer of verse, he makes himself useful as an editor for Men of the West.

June 4, 2019

Culture·History·Literature·Nationalism·Religion

History in Ancient Greece (Part 2): Herodotus

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) But the Ancient History of the Greeks never emancipated itself wholly from the influence

June 6, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 3): Thucydides

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) It was the attempt of the Oriental Persian Empire to conquer the Aegean basin which engaged the Homeric genius of Herodotus; Thucydides

December 19, 2018

Where is the Leadership? A Gen Xer Answers a Millennial

December 4, 2020

Friday Music: Bubba Ho-Tep

Culture·History·Nationalism

A Battery At Close Quarters

January 2, 2021

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from A Battery At Close Quarters, by Henry M. Neil (published 1909). During the Civil War artillery projectiles were divided as to structure into solid, hollow

Art·Culture·History·Nationalism

“A Defense of Heraldry” by G.K. Chesterton

January 1, 2021

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Art·Culture·Technology

Friday Music: Madis On the Moon

January 1, 2021

Children·Culture·Family·Philosophy·Religion

“A Defense of Baby-Worship” by G.K. Chesterton

December 29, 2020

The two facts which attract almost every normal person to children are, first, that they are very serious, and, secondly, that they are in consequence very happy.

Culture·History

“The Lost Things” by Hilaire Belloc

December 28, 2020

"It is a commonplace that everything is subject to decay, and a commonplace which the false philosophy of our time is too apt to forget."

Religion

Sermon: De Profundis

December 27, 2020

"But some I have seen, men and women, who have arisen, like David, out of that strange deep, all the stronger for their fall."

Religion

Hymn: In the Bleak Midwinter

December 27, 2020

In the bleak mid-winterFrosty wind made moan;Earth stood hard as iron,Water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow,Snow on snow,In the bleak mid-winterLong ago. Our God, heaven cannot hold HimNor earth

Culture·Family·History·Ladies·Nationalism·Religion

Confederate Christmas

December 25, 2020

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from The Southern Christmas Book, by Harnett T. Kane (published 1958). For four harsh years most Southerners approached the holidays with mixed feelings. Would the war

Art·Culture·Religion

André Rieu: The Christmas I Love

December 25, 2020

André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra.

Culture·History

“The Christmas of 1808” by Hilaire Belloc

December 23, 2020

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from On Anything, by Hilaire Belloc (published 1910). No British Army in force has capitulated in Europe for many generations. It is the peculiar historical position

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