Quote of the Week: Fabian Tassano, “Mediocracy”
“Mediocracy cannot permit genuine dissent. Apart from the fact that its ideology cannot be questioned, there is a risk that its high culture will be…
Conservatism Defined
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “Gentle Regrets”
“Ideas, in the Tory vision, are fleeting by products of the social and political process, which are no sooner produced than forgotten. In this and…
Quote of the Week: Anthony Ludovici, “A Defence of Conservatism”
“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…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part V: Distributism
The final essay in this series will address the question of government. And, of course, more will be left unsaid than said thereby: we’ve not…
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…
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Pickthorn
“A Conservative is a man who believes that in politics the onus of proof is on the proposer of change … Marks of the Conservative…
Quote of the Week: Michael Oakeshott, “Rationalism in Politics”
“From all this the man of conservative temperament draws some appropriate conclusions. First, innovation entails certain loss and possible gain, therefore, the onus of proof,…
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: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Conservatism has different versions because its advocates disagree about what political arrangements would make a society good. There is, however, no disagreement about having to…
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…