2017 Symposium – Paul Gottfried
A View of the Political Scene The election of Donald Trump and the decisive ways in which he has acted against the immigration lobby and…
Conservatism Defined
Quote of the Week: Paul Gottfried and Thomas Fleming, “The Conservative Movement”
“Whatever the differences that characterize their various schools of thought, conservatives, as much as Leftists, are united by a distinctive approach to reality – particularly…
Ave Et Vale – Roderick Ian West
“Do not suppose, that in thus appealing to the ancients, I am throwing back the world two thousand years, and fettering Philosophy with the reasonings…
2015 Symposium – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs On Baudelairean Traditionalism I The Prelude Edwin Dyga invites a response to the question, Whither Conservatism – or rather “Quo Vadis,…
Quote of the Week: Luke Torrisi, Address at the University of Technology Sydney
“The first thing about the enduring moral order is that […] it’s got to be something that is permanent, it’s got to be something that…
Quote of the Week: T. S. Eliot, “After Strange Gods”
“I hold – in summing up – that a tradition is rather a way of feeling and acting which characterises a group throughout generations; and that…
Quote of the Week: Luke Torrisi, Address at the University of Technology Sydney
“The word conservative is perhaps the most grossly misunderstood and misused word in current political dialogue. A lot of people are running around calling themselves…
Tradition and Reaction in Quadrant
Readers of SydneyTrads will be interested to note the publication of Luke Torrisi’s “Tradition and Reaction in Conservative Politics” which appears in the January-February issue of Quadrant magazine.1 Torrisi…
Quote of the Week: Cory Bernardi, “The Conservative Revolution”
“Indeed, there is no model conservative due to the inherently variable nature of the human condition and the particular traditions that it creates. This will…
Quote of the Week: Cory Bernardi, “The Conservative Revolution”
“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…