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…
Christianity
Metanarrative Collapse? Whether the Christian Cosmology Invented by St. Augustine of Hippo Has Stood the Test of Time [Pt. II]
[See Part I of this essay here] IV Augustine’s Hellenistic Hermeneutic Augustine’s interpretation of the Biblical metanarrative portrays both the creation and the end of…
Metanarrative Collapse? Whether the Christian Cosmology Invented by St. Augustine of Hippo Has Stood the Test of Time [Pt. I]
I Introduction From its beginnings in the first century A.D. Christianity anchored its cosmology in the Bible. But what is the Bible? As a book…
Can Great Poetry Survive the Post-revolutionary West?
This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 27 September 2019 by Prof. Barry Spurr, as part of the…
Making Angelcynns: How Alfred the Great Responded to the Viking Invasions
This is the first of two essays that formed the basis of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 15 September 2018 by…
A Manifesto of Neo-Romanticism
He is thinking: “See how God writes straigh on crooked lines.”1 What realistic form can a manifesto of neo-romanticism take in a positivistic age? How…
Suicide of the West: Towards a Universal Homogeneous Super-State
This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 23 November 2018 by Prof. Ted Sadler, as part of the…
Scientism, Existential Reflection and God
I Scientism, Science and Technology Scientism is not science. Instead, scientism is an ideology that reduces man’s hope and aspirations to the scientific method. Scientism…
Marxism and Secularism’s Cultural Overreach
I God is the “Opiate of the People” For Karl Marx, God is what he calls the “opiate of the people.” That is, belief in…
Update: Melbourne Traditionalists Conference
Late last year we gave advance notice of the Melbourne Traditionalists Conference which will be held in October this year. It is just seven weeks…