2017 Symposium – Luke Torrisi
The Unspoken Moral Questions of Identity Myself against my brother. Myself and my brother against my cousin. Myself, my brother and my cousin against the…
Cultural Elites
Political Correctness and the Death of Education – Requiem for a Dream
In The One By Whom Scandal Comes (2014) René Girard writes: “Every culture takes a dim view of anyone who does not unconditionally prefer the native…
2016 Symposium – Gwendolyn Taunton
Nietzsche: The Physician of Culture Do not be afraid of the stream of things: this stream turns back on itself: it runs away from itself…
2015 Symposium – Michael Tung
Ride That Tiger Or, The Party’s an Ass “… I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though it contains (and…
Elites Fear Le Pen More Than Le Sword
The response to the latest Islamist attacks against the West, this time in Paris, has become a familiar refrain. It is the same one used…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Meaning of Conservatism”
“Of course, the old aristocratic society has vanished. But the vision of culture and public spirit survived for a while the society that engendered it….
Quote of the Week: Matthew Crawford, “Shop Class as Soulcraft”
“Ironically, it is now the managerial elite of international capital that is likely to complain of the false consciousness of those workers on whom the…
Quote of the Week: Enoch Powell, “Freedom & Reality”
“There could be no greater misconception of the realities than is entertained by those who vociferously demand of legislation as they call it ‘against discrimination’,…
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…
Ideology In Our Vexicology
(Feature image: Postcard celebrating our Family of Nations (date unknown). Far from being ‘divisive’ or ‘irrelevant’, the Union Flag has been a unifying symbol for disparate peoples across the…