Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Talk Today

This year's Austrian Scholars Conference is ongoing. The schedule is here.

The second block of afternoon sessions today begins at 2:45 PM CST (8:45 PM GMT / 9:45 PM CET). It includes a session entitled Sociology and Economics. During this session Professor Michael King of the Benedictine College in Kansas will be having a talk entitled The Thoughts and Writings of Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn.

The conference can be watched live here.


Update: The parallel sessions, of which said talk is part, seem not to be streamed.

Defecting Regiments

Four score and a long dozen years ago today, several Russian regiments defected to the revolutionaries.

The Confederate Constitution

A year short of one and a half centuries ago today, the Constitution of those Confederate States of America was adopted.

Revolution in Russia

Four score and a baker's dozen years ago today, the February Revolution broke out in the Russian Imperial capital.

The Bees' World

H/T: American Monarchist

The Boston Massacre

A dozen score years ago today, the Boston Massacre took place.

Frederik Stang

Two centuries and two years ago today, Frederik Stang was born.


Previously: Frederik Stang

Inaugural Addresses

March 4 was until Amendment XX to the United States Constitution took effect, Inauguration Day for the President of the United States.

Three years short of a century ago today, the bête noire of this weblog gave his first inaugural address. On the day four years later, he gave his second inaugural address, in which he – amongst other things – said:

We stand firm in armed neutrality since it seems that in no other way we can demonstrate what it is we insist upon and cannot forget.

That neutrality was a so-called one since the summer of 1914.

His successor, Warren G. Harding, spoke 89 years ago. He said:

The unselfishness of these United States is a thing proven; our devotion to peace for ourselves and for the world is well established; our concern for preserved civilization has had its impassioned and heroic expression. There was no American failure to resist the attempted reversion of civilization; there will be no failure today or tomorrow.

And:

When World War threatened civilization we pledged our resources and our lives to its preservation[...]

Preserved civilization?

Senator Harding had spoken previously:

Saying at the end:

This Republic has never failed humanity, nor endangered civilization.

We know that the Great War ended civilization as we knew it. Although the ignition of the war was the great catastrophe, and those United States had no part in its ignition, their involvement on the modernist side through “neutrality” and later military involvement certainly gave a large contribution to the destruction of the world that was – and, hence, to the rise of the totalitarianism of the 20^th century, the democratic soft totalitarianism included.

The United States Constitution

Eleven score and a year ago today, the United States Constitution took effect.

The War in the Vendée

217 years ago the War in the Vendée commenced.

According to Wikipedia:

On March 3, 1793, virtually all the churches were ordered closed. Sacramental vessels were confiscated by soldiers and the people were forbidden to place a cross on their graves.

Some old articles/blog posts:

• LewRockwell.com: Sophie Masson: Remembering the Vendée
• The Daily Telegraph: Vendée French Call for Revolution Massacre to Be Termed 'Genocide' [Tea at Trianon]
• Le Fleur de Lys too: Crimes against Humanity 1794

Abdülmecid II

86 years ago today, His Imperial Majesty The Caliph Abdülmecid II was deposed.

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Four score and a dozen years ago today, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed.