What is The Hazelnut?
The Hazelnut is a journal of literary and cultural renewal, dedicated to the permanent things in a spirit of wonder. We’re committed to challenging the neo-Marxist and Postmodern dominance of higher education and culture.
The Hazelnut seeks to restore wonder to the reading (and writing) of literature, to rediscover the truths reflected in great art, and to interrogate the role of traditional ideas in modern culture. This is a conscious departure from the prevailing approach, in which art and culture are subjected to (liberal) political agendas, and/or emptied of meaning entirely through a nihilistic, deconstructive philosophy.
The Hazelnut is dedicated to discovering the wisdom of the past and showing its application to today. We’re focused not just on looking back, but also on looking forward. We’re concerned with developing and discovering concrete ideas and real solutions to our cultural problems, such as our “Case Studies in Cultural Renewal” series.
About me: I am a literature MA whose work has appeared in The Epoch Times, The Hemingway Review, The Federalist, Intellectual Takeout, LifeSite News, The Daily Caller, American Thinker, The International Business Times, The American Spectator, American Essence, Catholic Match, Catholic Exchange, Students for Life, One Peter Five, Crisis Magazine, the Mises Institute, The Remnant, Human Life International, The St. Austin Review, Satori, FORMA, 1819 News, Driftless Magazine, Sword&Spade, the Albertus Magnus Institute, and Bedrock Magazine (forthcoming). I taught literature and history at a private academy, and I'm committed to spreading a love for literature and culture as vehicles for truth, goodness, and beauty.
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About the Title
“And with this insight he also showed me a little thing, the size of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand. It seemed to me as round as a ball. I gazed at it and thought, ‘What can this be?’ The answer came thus, ‘It is everything that is made.’ I marveled how this could be, for it was so small it seemed it might fall suddenly into nothingness.”
--Julian of Norwich
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