The Great Man of History and the Fallacy of Equality
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? [Where is the Great Man?] (1 Corinthians…
Essays, Dissertations and Studies
Won’t Someone Please Think of the Cancer?
The phrase ‘I’m only intolerant of intolerance’ seems as silly as ‘the only thing we have to fear is fear itself’. They’re both sort of…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part V: Distributism
The final essay in this series will address the question of government. And, of course, more will be left unsaid than said thereby: we’ve not…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part IV: Natural Rights
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.” — Robert Frost One of the most…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part III: Carl Jung
As to the previous essay on Existentialism, it could be surmised that man’s obligation to construct meaning in his own life is limited only to…
First “Shots Fired” in Australia’s Culture War, 2014
Cory Bernardi wrote a book late last year titled The Conservative Revolution (Connor Court, 2013). To most thinking Conservatives the more controversial element of the…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part II: Existentialism
I. Introduction If we’re going to tackle the Frankfurt School, we ought to understand their ideas. In order to understand their ideas, we have to…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part I: Cultural Marxism
The Right-Wing Slogan of the Year for 2013 was Smash Cultural Marxism (followed shortly by Anti-Racist is a Code Word for Anti-White). It’s unclear if…
Classicism: Its Theory and Practice
I. The Question Anyone possessed with a literary enthusiasm has read a poem written in the last half-century or so that made them wince with…
Elegant English: How to Communicate like a Gentleman or a Lady
Whenever I have lamented the poor use of English grammar, lexicon or semantics in the present age, people have told me that I was over-reacting,…