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…
“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…
“Many of us are involved in politics because we have an interest in the future of our community […] we want to make a positive contribution…
“Thus when the conservative discusses freedom, he accepts that while maximising it is a worthy goal, it must nevertheless always be balanced by the broader…
“The opposition of a great conservative like the Seventh Earl of Shaftsbury to the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867, and the Ballot Act of…
“The very notion of true liberty is often difficult to grasp because it tends to be measured according to subjective values that can differ widely…
“When a tendency has gone to extremes, it is most evident that something must be done to oppose it. Opposing one aspect of it may…
“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,…
“There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind…
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…
“In the traditional or Classical-Christian view, life is experienced as participation in (or as rebellion against) a comprehensive order of existence – natural, social and…