Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Natural conservatism values and aims to protect the tried and true; both together, because the tried alone may have little in its favor and much against…
Conservative Disposition
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: Roger Scruton, “Green Philosophy”
“Even if we thought, as Peter Singer and his followers seem to think, that there is a class of uniquely reasonable people who will be…
Quote of the Week: Quintin Hogg, “The Case for Conservatism”
“The profit motive is accepted and is used as the normal driving force, but it is not permitted to dominate, for if it does we…
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: 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: 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…