The Year in Review: 2019, Started as Tragedy, Ended as Tragicomedy
Every year for the non-Boomer right seems like a watershed, and 2019 was no exception. The year that passed was marked by shattered hopes and…
Big Government conservatism
Quote of the Week: Richard Viguerie, “Conservatives Betrayed”
“If conservative organizations emulate the Left in seeking and receiving taxpayers’ money, they will become like the Left in other ways too. They will orient themselves towards serving the…
Questions for Conservatives After the Electoral Victory
Last night, Tony Abbott, who has routinely been denounced as an ‘extremist’ by progressives of all stripes1 was elected the 28th Prime Minister of Australia….
Quote of the Week: Sean Gabb, Address to Conservative Future
“A Cameron Government, as I have said, seems willing to try coexistence with the Establishment. The Thatcher Government set out to fight and defeat an…
Quote of the Week: Robert Menzies, “Central Power in the Australian Commonwealth”
“I am, particularly for a large continent with widely scattered communities, with great regional or local problems and understandable local prides and patriotisms, a Federalist….
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“Even so called ‘absolute’ monarchies were in practice limited by such private groups as an independent clergy, nobility, bourgeois Third Estate, guilds of workers and those real…
Quote of the Week: Enoch Powell, “Freedom and Reality”
“The methods which revolutionaries, thus turned conservative, adopt are much the same everywhere in every age. The student of history might find a wry interest…
Quote of the Week: Sam Francis, “Beautiful Losers”
“‘Neoconservatism’ today is usually called simply ‘conservatism’, though it is sometimes known under other labeled as well: Fred Barnes’s ‘Big Government conservatism’; HUD Secretary Jack Kemp’s ‘progressive…