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The Sword, the Rock, and the Land: An Introduction to a More Organic Vision of Culture and Politics
People are moving to the right in droves, but most of what passes for “conservatism” is still libertarian slogans, a shallow kind of nationalism, or safe, managed opposition.
The Sword, the Rock, and the An Introduction to a More Organic Vision of Culture and Politics is my attempt to recover something older and thicker—a conservatism rooted in piety, hierarchy, and a life mixed with the land.
I start with first realism about human nature, the authority of tradition, and the idea that every natural right is tied to a natural duty. Conservatism, in this sense, isn’t an ideology but ordered charity—giving God, family, neighbor, and homeland their due.
From there, I use the story of King Arthur—the sword, the rock, and the land—to explore the paternal pattern of authority. Civil rule can’t save souls, but it can act as a protecting, disciplining, and educating a people toward the good.
I then turn to agrarianism and the “post-political savage,” showing how consumerism and rootlessness deform citizens into isolated, ungovernable individuals—and why true politics belongs to settled men whose lives are bound up with a place.
Along the way, I critique neoconservative gatekeeping and describe the current right-wing renaissance as a healthy ad fontes a return to inheritance, place, and social solidarity.
The book ends where my own imagination in the life of my grandfather, Dwight “Poppy” Easler Sr.—a man whose duty to God, family, and community embodied the order I’m trying to describe.
If you feel that something is deeply wrong with the modern West, and you’re ready for more than talk-radio conservatism, this is your invitation.
The Sword, the Rock, and the An Introduction to a More Organic Vision of Culture and Politics is my attempt to recover something older and thicker—a conservatism rooted in piety, hierarchy, and a life mixed with the land.
I start with first realism about human nature, the authority of tradition, and the idea that every natural right is tied to a natural duty. Conservatism, in this sense, isn’t an ideology but ordered charity—giving God, family, neighbor, and homeland their due.
From there, I use the story of King Arthur—the sword, the rock, and the land—to explore the paternal pattern of authority. Civil rule can’t save souls, but it can act as a protecting, disciplining, and educating a people toward the good.
I then turn to agrarianism and the “post-political savage,” showing how consumerism and rootlessness deform citizens into isolated, ungovernable individuals—and why true politics belongs to settled men whose lives are bound up with a place.
Along the way, I critique neoconservative gatekeeping and describe the current right-wing renaissance as a healthy ad fontes a return to inheritance, place, and social solidarity.
The book ends where my own imagination in the life of my grandfather, Dwight “Poppy” Easler Sr.—a man whose duty to God, family, and community embodied the order I’m trying to describe.
If you feel that something is deeply wrong with the modern West, and you’re ready for more than talk-radio conservatism, this is your invitation.
47 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 3, 2025
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