Tea at Trianon: Films for Freedom: An Anti-Communist Festival

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Films for Freedom: An Anti-Communist Festival

My friend Mark Judge is organizing a really fabulous film festival of both classic and new films that expose the destructive processes of Marxism upon society. It's going to be in DC in 2026. Please consider sponsoring, donating, and spreading the word. The Left has been using the arts against the Right for years. We need to fight back. Non nobis, non nobis, Domine.... From the "Films for Freedom" GoFundMe:

It’s time for an an anti-communist film festival. Conservatives have been complaining about Hollywood for decades, yet the right has struggled, through lack of will or lack of money, to make movies promoting freedom and revealing the evils of socialism. The answer? Hold an anti-Communist film festival. This fundraiser is to rent a theater for a week in the fall of 2026 and provide licensing fees for the movies screened. The festival director is Mark Judge, the author of The Devil's Triangle: Mark Judge vs the New American Stasi. Last year the American Film Institute screened a series on films of the 1950s, and several of the movies are warnings about the dangers of communism. They are strikingly relevant in America in 2025. (Read more.)