What is The Hazelnut?
The Hazelnut is a literary and cultural journal dedicated to the permanent things, in a spirit of wonder, eschewing the tyranny of the ideologues. We’re committed to challenging the neo-Marxist and Postmodern dominance of higher education and literary studies. The Hazelnut seeks to restore wonder to the reading (and writing) of literature, and to rediscover the truths reflected in great art. This is a conscious departure from the prevailing approach, in which art is subjected to (liberal) political agendas, and/or emptied of meaning entirely through a nihilistic, deconstructive philosophy.
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, Students for Life, One Peter Five, Crisis Magazine, the Mises Institute, The Remnant, Human Life International, The St. Austin Review, Satori, and the Albertus Magnus Institute. I taught literature and history at a private academy, and I'm dedicated to spreading a love for literature as a vehicle for truth and beauty.
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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