The Reflexive Problem in Analytic Philosophy: Illogical Logicians
On some topics, most analytic philosophers embrace assertions that involve gross violations of logic and common sense. For instance, determinism is either accepted as true,…
Essays, Dissertations and Studies
Feminism, Children and the Future
During World War I, Serbia had the most casualties of any country as a percentage of the population; between 16.67% to 27.78%.1 This meant that…
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…
René Guénon and Eric Voegelin on the Degeneration of Right Order [Part II]
I Guénon, Voegelin, and the Modern Crisis. The concupiscent subject’s response to the Siren Song of the ecumene, to conquer and possess it, qualifies as…
René Guénon and Eric Voegelin on the Degeneration of Right Order [Part I]
I Introduction The Diadochic Kingdoms No area of Western history is quite as recondite as that of the Diadochic empires, the successor-kingdoms that sprang up…
A Reflection on Joseph Pearce’s “A Christian Response to Europe’s Crisis”
Joseph Pearce recently had a provocative article published in the UK’s Catholic Herald, titled “A Christian Response to Europe’s Crisis.”1 Some might not know who…
Plan White – Redux … now in Rainbow Pantyhose
Germany’s code name for the strategic plan of its September 1, 1939 invasion of Poland was Fall Weiss—“Plan White.” The plan envisioned a three-month long…
Faux-Conservatism Alive and Well at Sydney University
Every so often I am provided with a piece of writing, where the author purports to be a “conservative”, so that I may offer comment…
Tradition and Reaction in Quadrant
Readers of SydneyTrads will be interested to note the publication of Luke Torrisi’s “Tradition and Reaction in Conservative Politics” which appears in the January-February issue of Quadrant magazine.1 Torrisi…
The Sacred Grove: Natural Space and the Numinous
I A pervasive interest in the association of natural space with the sacred is a noticeable tendency in the work of some important Traditionalists. Tolkien,…