Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Aesthetics of Architecture”
“Contemporary architects often speak of ‘design problems’ and ‘design solutions’, and in that notion of design is encapsulated, as a rule, precisely the attempt to…
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Quote of the Week: Léon Krier, “The Architecture of Community”
“Just like artists, experimental scientists generally make discoveries not by systematic thought but by leaps of intuition. Yet it is only through logical deduction and…
Can the Internet Really Change the Language?
Linguists like David Crystal are now claiming that the Internet, that new, impersonal force of the 21st Century, is able to change the language over…
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 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…
Quote of the Week: Bill Cunningham, “New York”
“Then the army came along, this is 1951, I was drafted, well they were appalled that I would go and their investment would be on…
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…
TFP Lecture: Is Beauty Really ‘In The Eye of The Beholder’?
Yesterday, members of the Sydney Traditionalist Forum attended a lecture organised by the Tradition Family Property organisation on the topic of ‘Is beauty really “in…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “Beauty”
“[E]verything I have said about the experience of beauty implies that it is rationally founded. It challenges us to find meaning in its object, to…
Quote of the Week: Dinesh D’Souza, “What’s So Great About Christianity?”
“Consider the case of Western art. Have you been to the Sistine Chapel? Seen Michelangelo’s Pietà? Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper? Perhaps you are familiar…