Quote of the Week: Robert Lewis Dabney, “Discussions”
“These attempts to do the impossible illustrate the most absurd enterprise of all: the attempt of our modern materialistic infidels to abolish religion. The Commune…
Civilisation
Quote of the Week: Keith Preston, “Aristokratia” (Vol. 3, 2015)
“The guiding principles of contemporary liberal democracies are an all-pervasive consumerism and loudly proclaiming one’s own status as an official victim of historic or cosmic…
Quote of the Week: George Santayana, “The Sense of Beauty; being The Outlines of Æsthetic Theory”
“§14. The function of reproduction carries with it not only direct modifications of the body and mind, but a whole set of social institutions, for…
Quote of the Week: Giovan Battista Vico, “The New Science” (1774)
“So that if worship of providence were forbidden, the natural consequence would be their fall, for a nation of fatalists or casualists or atheists never existed in…
Quote of the Week: Joseph de Maistre, “Generative Principle of Political Constitutions”
“Those who have been happy to corrupt old institutions while preserving their external forms have perhaps done as much damage to mankind. Already the influence…
Quote of the Week: Richard Weaver, “Ideas Have Consequences”
“We may feel satisfied to be damned for not producing great art or for not observing ceremony, but what if it is shown that addiction…
Quote of the Week: Cory Bernardi, “The Conservative Revolution”
“Those who challenge the reality that our Western worldview is infused with a behavioural code that stems from our Christian ethos would quickly point out…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Meaning of Conservatism”
“Of course, the old aristocratic society has vanished. But the vision of culture and public spirit survived for a while the society that engendered it….
Poem: “Western Morality”
I see some women dressed in veils go by, And next to them, some women barely dressed. I contemplate this contrast, and ask why, Our…
Poem: “The English Tongue Today”
Once upon a time the English tongue, Used to be like rhythmic music sung. What has happened to this speech today? Tortured it has been…