Quote of the Week: Theodore Dalrymple, “In Praise of Prejudice”
“But, as the great historian Lord Acton said, ‘Ideas have a radiation and a development, an ancestry and posterity of their own, in which men…
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Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Uses of Pessimism”
“I am aware that I belong to a kind, and that this kind has a place in nature. I am also aware that I depend…
Quote of the Week: Robert Bork, “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”
“The judicial adoption of the tenets of modern liberalism has produced a crisis of legitimacy. Contrary to the plan of the American government, the Supreme…
Quote of the Week: Anthony Ludovici, “The False Assumptions of ‘Democracy'”
“The traditions of the Middle Ages, at least, included certain principles that led to the protection of the poorer and more ignorant classes; the Church…
Quote of the Week: Sam Francis, “Beautiful Losers”
“‘Neoconservatism’ today is usually called simply ‘conservatism’, though it is sometimes known under other labeled as well: Fred Barnes’s ‘Big Government conservatism’; HUD Secretary Jack Kemp’s ‘progressive…
Mark Steyn speaks in Sydney, 29 February 2012
On the 29th of February, 2012, Canadian journalist and commentator Mark Steyn addressed a Sydney audience at the city Tattersalls Club. The event, jointly hosted by…
Quote of the Week: Lawrence Auster, “Huddled Clichés”
“The belief that immigrants from non-Western countries can morally improve Americans is a by-product of the ideology of democratic universalism. The establishment conservatives (who, to…
Quote of the Week: Guillaume Faye, “Archeofuturism”
“Let us imagine a sphere, a billiard ball moving in a disorderly fashion across a surface, or moving by the (necessarily imperfect) will of a…
Quote of the Week: Richard Weaver, “Ideas Have Consequences”
“Hysterical optimism is a sin against knowledge, and the conviction has been here expressed that nothing substantial can be done until we have brought sinners to…
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“Without inner psychological liberty, outer civil liberties are not quite enough. We can talk civil liberties, prosperity, democracy with the tongues of men and angels,…