Matthew Omolesky, Author at The American Spectator

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Matthew Omolesky

Matthew Omolesky is a human rights lawyer and a researcher in the fields of cultural heritage preservation and law and anthropology. A Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, he has been contributing to The American Spectator since 2006, as well as to publications including Quadrant, Lehrhaus, Europe2020, the European Journal of Archaeology, and Democratiya.

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Cultural Decline

Darkening Senses: John Donne, Byung-Chul Han, and the Palliative Society

by Matthew Omolesky | Nov 30, 2021

Tragedy is a gift from the gods to men. I am not talking about the tragedy of the tragic poets….

In Print Fall 2021

A Flight Into Death: Sigmund Freud, Byung-Chul Han, and the Decadence of Late Liberalism

by Matthew Omolesky | Nov 18, 2021

Sophie Halberstadt was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child when she fell ill with the Spanish influenza….

Cultural Decline

A Hateful Business: Modern Monoculture and the Era of Hollow Expectations

by Matthew Omolesky | Oct 9, 2021

I do not yearn for a virgin nature, a nature without the peasant’s ennobling footprint and without the palace crowning…

Politics

An Era of Vandalism: Part III

by Matthew Omolesky | Sep 26, 2021

Having witnessed the rising action in Grisy-Suisnes, the climax in the Chamber of Deputies, and the denouement that followed, it…

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An Era of Vandalism: Part II

by Matthew Omolesky | Sep 25, 2021

Find part one here. Find Part III here. Again the grand drape rises, but now we find ourselves in the…

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An Era of Vandalism: Part I

by Matthew Omolesky | Sep 24, 2021

El reaccionario neto no es soñador de pasados abolidos, Sino cazador de sombras sagradas sobre las colinas eternas The pure…

Arts and Letters

The Ruin of the Ages: Chateaubriand, the Torlonia Marbles, and the Twilight of Civilization

by Matthew Omolesky | Aug 16, 2021

Sculpte, lime, cisèle; Que ton rêve flottant Se scelle Dans le bloc résistant! Sculpt, and file, and chisel away; So…

In Print

China’s Spectral State

by Matthew Omolesky | Jul 25, 2021

Yunnan, 1914 It is summertime in the lush hill country of southwestern China, and the air is suffused with a…

Cultural Decline

China’s Three-Child Policy and the Philosophy of Reproduction

by Matthew Omolesky | Jun 12, 2021

Wang-sun Chia asked: “What does this saying mean: ‘It is better to sacrifice to the god of the stove than…

Another Perspective

The Return of the Cicadas

by Matthew Omolesky | May 1, 2021

Las civilizaciones son bullicio estival de insectos entre dos inviernos. Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters….

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