Quote of the Week: Jesse Helms, “The Ramparts We Watched”
“So, in a very real sense, the character of government is largely an inverse reflection of the character of the people. The weaker the people,…
Civil Society
Quote of the Week: James Kalb, “The Tyranny of Liberalism”
“The technocratic society they prefer promotes liberal understandings. Market, bureaucratic and industrial forms of organization abolish durable ties and treat everything as interchangeable. The electronic…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Moral traditions, then, are enabling rather than productive; defensive rather than venturesome regulative rather than goal-directed. A moral tradition is working well if no one…
Quote of the Week: Michael Whelan, “Without God All Things Are Lawful”
“There is, if you like, an inescapable logic implicit here. It goes something like this: ♦ when God (the transcendent, the ultimate, the divine dimension)…
Quote of the Week: Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America”
“Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels …
Quote of the Week: John Horvat II, “Return to Order”
“Contrast Between the Modern and Organic States “The modern State accomplishes its role by instituting an all-powerful bureaucratic system of legal norms to safeguard and regulate the private…
Quote of the Week: Rudyard Kipling, “The Stranger”
The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk— I cannot feel his mind. I see…
Inaugural Cardinal Newman Dinner, 16 February 2013
Yesterday, the Australian Catholic Students Association hosted the inaugural “Cardinal Newman Dinner” in honour of the prominent leader of the nineteenth century New Oxford Movement which strove…
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Minogue, “The Servile Mind”
“A conception of society as a set of people relating to each other only as active and passive agents in the activity of excluding, disadvantaging,…
Quote of the Week: Allen Tate, “Essays of Four Decades”
“The kind of property that sustains the traditional society is not only not hostile to a unified moral code; it is positively the basis of…