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)…
Civilisation
Fourth Documentary Screening with Honoured Guest, Sen. Cory Bernardi, 8 April 2013
Last month, on Monday 8 April 2013, the Sydney Traditionalist Forum hosted its fourth documentary screening, the first which was attended by an honoured guest:…
Quote of the Week: Russell Kirk, “The Paleoconservatives”
“Traditions also have been defended upon empirical grounds. That a society seems to have thrived when it obeyed the dictates of tradition, and seemed to…
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 …
Lawrence Auster: Dignity and Poise
U.S. Traditionalist commentator and essayist Lawrence Auster, who is suffering the painful and debilitating consequences of metastasized cancer, has published a moving post on his weblog, View…
Quote of the Week: Gildas Sapiens, “De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniæ”
“§1 Whatever my attempt shall be in this epistle, made more in tears than in denunciation, in poor style, I allow, but with good intent, let…
T. S. Eliot and Reactionary Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century
T. S. Eliot is best known as the greatest poet of the twentieth century. Less known, at least in the popular imagination, is his substantial…
Stark Options for Australia’s Future
Since yesterday’s celebration of our national genesis, we have been reflecting on the future of this island nation with heavy hearts. Despite the superficial flag…
Australia Day 2013
There is much to reflect on this Australia Day, 26 January 2013. This Antipodean island continent that has remained, so far, strongly part of the…
Quote of the Week: John Michell, “Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist”
“As Ian Sommerville put it: every day the queue at the post office grown longer, until one day it is no longer a queue but…