Ark de Triumph: Review of “Noah” (Darren Aronofsky)
The Biblical epic of Noah and his Ark has been a childhood staple for generations of Sunday school going youngsters – the felt board classic,…
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Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Delores O’Riordan – The Icicle Melts
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Dominik Giemza. The notes were produced for a broadcast of Monday,…
Quote of the Week: Cory Bernardi, “The Conservative Revolution”
“The principles which have guided mankind for centuries provide a very clear map of the path we should take. In fact, they should be entirely…
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…
“Death of Hazel Hawke” and “Diversity Strikes London, Again”
Who was it who said we lived in a boring world? Two events in yesterday’s news prove that history has certainly not yet ended (pace…
Quote of the Week: Jonathan Bowden, Interview at the Union Jack Club, 21 November 2009
“Q. Why aren’t you a liberal?” “A. Well, I think basically because liberalism is not a three dimensional view of life. I don’t think it’s at all deep…
Quote of the Week: Theodore Dalrymple, “In Praise of Prejudice”
“Rights expand to meet the egos of those for whom freedom is nothing but unconstrained action (The only good that deserves the name, says Mill,…
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…