2016 Symposium – Valdis Grinsteins
The failure of Utopian Europe The great advantage of seeing things from afar is that the whole can be appreciated without the observer being distracted…
Centralisation
2016 Symposium – Valdis Grinsteins
El Fracaso de la Europa Utopista. La gran ventaja de ver las cosas de lejos es que fácilmente observamos el conjunto y no nos distraemos…
Quote of the Week: Hans-Hermann Hoppe “Democracy: The God that Failed”
“It should be obvious then that and why libertarians must be moral and cultural conservatives of the most uncompromising kind. The current state of moral…
Quote of the Week: Eugene Genovese, “The Southern Tradition”
“But most conservatives have distrusted ideological crusades, especially those which remind them of Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman and profess to stand at Armageddon and battle…
Quote of the Week: George Nash, “The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945”
“For radical libertarianism (or anarchism, or radical capitalism – the names seemed interchangeable) drew most of its support not from established right-wing intellectuals but from…
2015 Symposium – Urho Lintinen
Impressions from the Old Continent I Introduction 2015 has seen steadily escalating polarization of political lines dividing European public sphere due to the re-emergence of…
Quote of the Week: Francis Graham Wilson, “The Case for Conservatism”
“I do not think one needs to say that the defense of property means that we must defend a theoretical system of laissez-faire, that, in…
Quote of the Week: Robert Nisbet, “The Quest For Community”
“The intensity of theoretical interest in the family has curiously enough arisen in direct proportion to the decline of the family’s basic institutional importance to…
Quote of the Week: Ron Paul, “The School Revolution”
“Each day the Bible was read, the Lord’s Prayer was said, and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited. No one objected, mainly because the school…
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Minogue, “Conservative Realism”
“This drive to manage society is in our time so pervasive that it has spread beyond the area of political debate and is now enthusiastically…