
CR Episode 314: W.H. Auden and Medievalism criticalreadings.com/2026/03/16/cr-โฆ
S. P. Cooper ๐
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Ph.D., FRSA. Arthuriana, chivalry, kingship. Now: Pres. @CourtlyLitNA, Host @CritReadings, Senior Editor @EuroConMag. Formerly: @MadisonProgram @Princeton.

CR Episode 314: W.H. Auden and Medievalism criticalreadings.com/2026/03/16/cr-โฆ

CR Episode 314: W.H. Auden and Medievalism criticalreadings.com/2026/03/16/cr-โฆ

โ๏ธ Fighting for the soul of the Western world. The tide is turning: patriotic forces are rising. Our time has come. Forward to victory!

"The medieval period was the age of faith. The Enlightenment was the age of reason. Today? To my very great regret, we live in the age of feeling." @McCormickProf at @ManhattanInst @reihan

@CultureExploreX @JamesWHankins1 I also donโt understand why people donโt understand that cultures can be better than othersโฆthat isnโt something rude or negative, simply factual. Modern British culture is clearly better than 11th century English cultureโฆwhich in turn is similar to some modern ones.



CR Episode 314: W.H. Auden and Medievalism criticalreadings.com/2026/03/16/cr-โฆ

You do not honor other cultures by weakening your own. You honor them by standing firmly in what is yours. Shakespeare is not a symbol of domination. He is one of the clearest expressions of what human language can reach at its highest level. His work survived because generation after generation, across cultures, found truth in it. What they are calling decolonising is diluting something rooted, tested, and refined over centuries. This is what happens when a civilization loses confidence in its own inheritance. The idea that Shakespeare being universal is harmful reveals something deeper. It suggests that greatness itself has become suspect. That if something endures across time and place, it must be explained away, not studied. That instinct erases standards. Tradition is not exclusion. It is memory. It is the record of what a civilization discovered was worth preserving. Once you start apologizing for that, you create a vacuum where nothing holds. A culture that cannot defend Shakespeare will not be able to defend anything else that made it.

Chuck Norris doesnโt die. Death gets Chuck Norrisโd.

The moment Con Inc used Fuentes as cover to try to deplatform and cancel Patrick Deneen was the moment they gave the entire game away.