Aesthetic Knowledge
Aesthetic subjectivism, or “relativism,” is the view that beauty is solely in the eye of the beholder. The term “relativism” is sometimes used to indicate…
Democracy
“Our Democracy” under attack by “Lone Wolves”?
The mainstream press can no longer deny the “new normal” of progressive Europe, which now evidently involves the slow-burn effect of the consequences of decades-old…
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…
2017 Symposium – Brett Stevens
Y3K Western identity never knew itself. Men of the West understood themselves as tribes and later nations, but never saw a need to unify…
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…
René Girard – Imitation and Life Without God
In preparation for teaching a literature course in the 1950s, René Girard reread some of the classic novels. In the process he realized that the…
Tremors in the Overton
One of the interesting aspects of living towards the outer edges of the civilised world is that the Cathedral1 signal is far more refined than…
Quote of the Week: James Allan, “Democracy in Decline”
“Users of the word democracy who opt for this fat, morally repugnant usage want it to convey two things. The first is a claim about…
Poetry by E. Antony Gray: “Forward the Foundation”
Tongue-in-cheek, the writers speak of what thing might befall them A serious joke, the tone is weak As if it might forestall them; Such is…
Quote of the Week: Thomas Molnar, “Authority and Its Enemies”
“If we admit that the State possesses the ultimate authority without which other institutions would lack theirs, we understand that this authority may be threatened…