ast: European Conservatism with Alvino-Mario Fantini // Steven Hayward
The European Conservative is one of my favourite journals. It was edited by Alvino-Mario Fantini, a Vienna-based journalist. It is printed on heavy stock paper and features stunning reproductions of classic art. This journal would look great on your coffee table with your Met gallery books or any other book.
In September, wrote this about the W.H.’s decision to drop the magazine. Smith newsstands in Britain were closed by a complaint about a cartoon in the summer issue. Here’s the cartoon:
We are happy to report that W.H Smith has resigned and The European Conservative has returned to its newsstands. You can also find the European Conservative at Barnes and Noble newsstands throughout the U.S.
Mario, a born networker and Dartmouth College alum, has done an amazing job of finding obscure conservative thinkers throughout Europe and translating their works into English. I met him in Vienna a few weeks ago as I was traveling from Budapest to Milan. We recorded the podcast in a Vienna cafe, because it felt the most authentic. You could almost picture Wittgenstein and Hayek, who were cousins!, talking over coffee in the corner. We will start by looking at the differences between European and American conservatisms, and then we’ll move on.
The fall issue is currently in the mail to subscribers (but it’s not too late to receive if subscribe now). I have taken the liberty to excerpt a helpful editorial note from this issue.
This journal, and the loose association in the creation of it: the Vanenburg Society, has always sought to explain and explore the different traditions of’respectable conservatism” in Europe and around world. We have always considered our task fundamentally scholarly, instructive, and we have not shied away from disagreeable thinkers (or publications) just because others tell us so. We appreciate and will defend different kinds of conservatism–particularly when they celebrate the classical and Christian humanism that forms the core of our ailing civilization.
It’s not a bad mission statement.
You know what you should do now: Listen here or go to your favorite Ricochet café:
