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…
Quotes
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….
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…
Quote of the Week: Till Kinzel, Introduction, “Scholia to an Implicit Text”
“Man is an animal that cannot find restfulness in this life, since he cannot just live in a state of self-oblivion within the passing of…
The ANZAC Tradition: Identity and Values
Instead of publishing our own message for this year’s ANZAC remembrance, we feel that the following exchange which occurred during the question and answer session…
Quote of the Week: Mark Butterworth, “Aryndell”
“It was not their only joy, but it was a source of quiet pleasure and a tender delight; the kind any man or woman might…