Quote of the Week: T. S. Eliot, “After Strange Gods”
“I hold – in summing up – that a tradition is rather a way of feeling and acting which characterises a group throughout generations; and that…
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Quote of the Week: Bryan Caplan, “The Myth of the Rational Voter”
“In the end, apologists for democracy often fall back on Winston Churchill’s slogan, ‘Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms…
The Defenestration of an Apparent Heretic
Readers in the online Sidestream may be aware of the recent defenestration of software developer and principal of Urbit, Curtis Yarvin, who was ‘disinvited’ from…
Quote of the Week: Alain de Benoist, “The Problem of Democracy”
“All ancient authors who have extolled democracy have praised it not because it is an intrinsically egalitarian regime, but because it is a regime in…
Quote of the Week: Joseph Sobran, “Pensées”
“Liberalism has come to stand for an obsession with the abnormal for its own sake—the minority, the dissident, the outsider, the deviant, and so on….
A Statement on Recent Developments in the Neoreactionary Online Community
Supporters and friends of the Sydney Traditionalist Forum will recall that in January this year we became a fellow organisation of the Hestia Society for…
Quote of the Week: Alisdair MacIntyre, “After Virtue”
“It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those…
Quote of the Week: Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America”
“Democracy not only gives the industrial classes a task for letters but also brings an industrial spirit into literature. “In aristocracies readers are few and…
Quote of the Week: Theresa Amato, “Grand Illusion”
“For the better part of last century, we have all been steamrolled into a big consensus pot, harmonized into the middle, so we don’t cause…
Quote of the Week: Eric Voegelin, “The Political Religions”
“When the heart is sensitive and the mind is perceptive, one look at the world will suffice to see the misery of the human creature…