Quote of the Week: José Ortega y Gasset, “Revolt of the Masses”
“The mass-man regards himself as perfect. The select man, in order to regard himself so, needs to be specially vain, and the belief in his…
Aristocracy
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: 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…
Aristokratia Volume 3: Coming Soon
We have been informed that the third volume of Aristokratia journal (Manticore Press) has been sent to the printers and will shortly be available for…
Quote of the Week: Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, “Leftism Revisited”
“Democracy is a political form, not a system of government. It has no social content, although the word is frequently misused in that sense. It…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Meaning of Conservatism”
“Of course, the old aristocratic society has vanished. But the vision of culture and public spirit survived for a while the society that engendered it….
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…
Quote of the Week: Anthony Ludovici, “A Defence of Conservatism”
“The opposition of a great conservative like the Seventh Earl of Shaftsbury to the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867, and the Ballot Act 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…