Ark de Triumph: Review of “Noah” (Darren Aronofsky)
The Biblical epic of Noah and his Ark has been a childhood staple for generations of Sunday school going youngsters – the felt board classic,…
Civilisation
Quote of the Week: Cory Bernardi, “The Conservative Revolution”
“The principles which have guided mankind for centuries provide a very clear map of the path we should take. In fact, they should be entirely…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part III: Carl Jung
As to the previous essay on Existentialism, it could be surmised that man’s obligation to construct meaning in his own life is limited only to…
Quote of the Week: José Ortega y Gasset, “Revolt of the Masses”
“My thesis, therefore, is this: the very perfection with which the XIXth Century gave an organisation to certain orders of existence as caused the masses…
First “Shots Fired” in Australia’s Culture War, 2014
Cory Bernardi wrote a book late last year titled The Conservative Revolution (Connor Court, 2013). To most thinking Conservatives the more controversial element of the…
Conservative Tales No. 2: Tradition as Language
Last Christmas I had to undertake the awful task of combing the bowels of a ‘shopping centre’ to find some inexpensive ‘stocking fillers’ for my…
Classicism: Its Theory and Practice
I. The Question Anyone possessed with a literary enthusiasm has read a poem written in the last half-century or so that made them wince with…
Quote of the Week: Julius Evola, “Revolt Against the Modern World”
“Those who begin from a particular traditional civilisation are able to integrate it by freeing it from its historical and contingent aspects, and thus bring…
Quote of the Week: Jonathan Bowden, Interview at the Union Jack Club, 21 November 2009
“Q. In what sense to you understand men and women to be different and in which way should societal and other institutional discrimination reflect those differences?”…
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…