Quote of the Week: Sean Gabb, Address to Conservative Future
“A Cameron Government, as I have said, seems willing to try coexistence with the Establishment. The Thatcher Government set out to fight and defeat an…
Conservatism and Society
Quote of the Week: Theodore Roosevelt, Address to the National Convention of Mothers
“No piled-up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no brilliance of artistic development, will permanently avail any people unless its home life is healthy, unless…
Bernardi Takes Knife for Excessive Honesty
South Australian Senator Cory Bernardi was recently forced to resign from the Opposition front bench, where he served as Parliamentary Secretary, after delivering an apparently controversial…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Some liberals start with a contract that rational and self-interested agents would supposedly arrive at in a hypothetical situation, and evaluate political arrangements on the…
Quote of the Week: Russell Kirk, “The Conservative Mind”
“I think that there are six canons of conservative thought – Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Meaning of Conservatism”
“It is a limp definition of conservatism to describe it as the desire to conserve; for although there is in every man and woman some…