Quote of the Week: Plato, “Republic”
“For when your guardians are ignorant of the law of births, and unite bride and bridegroom out of season, the children will not be goodly…
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Poetry by E. Antony Gray: “Forward the Foundation”
Tongue-in-cheek, the writers speak of what thing might befall them A serious joke, the tone is weak As if it might forestall them; Such is…
Quote of the Week: Thomas Molnar, “Authority and Its Enemies”
“If we admit that the State possesses the ultimate authority without which other institutions would lack theirs, we understand that this authority may be threatened…
Quote of the Week: Jonathan Bowden, “Western Civilization Bites Back”
“If you look at mass popular culture, the heroic is still alive. It’s still alive in junk films, in comic books, in forms that culturally…
Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Drive (for Daddy Gene)
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Luke Torrisi. The notes were produced for a recent broadcast, and…
Quote of the Week: Evan Sayet, “The Kindergarten of Eden”
“The Modern Liberal was born into a life as close to paradise as any human being since God first created man. Having come of age…
Poetry by E. Antony Gray: “Ode to a Burning Car”
A chariot without a charioteer ¶A car without a driver Of this contest we must fear ¶And who then is survivor –? Anarchy and a…
Political Correctness and the Death of Education – Requiem for a Dream
In The One By Whom Scandal Comes (2014) René Girard writes: “Every culture takes a dim view of anyone who does not unconditionally prefer the native…
Quote of the Week: Carle C. Zimmerman, “Family and Civilization”
“This is the basic theme of family and civilisation. Civilization grows out of familism; as it grows it loses its original connection with the basic…
Poetry by Luke Torrisi: “A Meditation in the Park”
Azure worlds joined on a string Maranatha Maranatha Maranatha Orbs of devotion spin through my fingers Show me your criss-crossed white scars Mine cannot be…