2015 Symposium – Alastair Hermann
The Abbott Aberration Tony Abbott was the most conservative Prime Minister in Australia’s recent history, yet when history writes up his tenure it will regard…
Democracy
2015 Symposium – Urho Lintinen
Impressions from the Old Continent I Introduction 2015 has seen steadily escalating polarization of political lines dividing European public sphere due to the re-emergence of…
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: Keith Preston, “Aristokratia” (Vol. 3, 2015)
“The guiding principles of contemporary liberal democracies are an all-pervasive consumerism and loudly proclaiming one’s own status as an official victim of historic or cosmic…
Quote of the Week: Mircea Eliade, “The Portugal Journal”
“My lack of interest for sociology, Marxism, and so forth is owing to the statement often made that these disciplines give you the illusion of…
Quote of the Week: José Ortega y Gasset, “Revolt of the Masses”
“The mass-man regards himself as perfect. The select man, in order to regard himself so, needs to be specially vain, and the belief in his…
Quote of the Week: Bryan Caplan, “The Myth of the Rational Voter”
“In the end, apologists for democracy often fall back on Winston Churchill’s slogan, ‘Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms…
Quote of the Week: Alain de Benoist, “The Problem of Democracy”
“All ancient authors who have extolled democracy have praised it not because it is an intrinsically egalitarian regime, but because it is a regime in…
Quote of the Week: Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America”
“Democracy not only gives the industrial classes a task for letters but also brings an industrial spirit into literature. “In aristocracies readers are few and…
Quote of the Week: Theresa Amato, “Grand Illusion”
“For the better part of last century, we have all been steamrolled into a big consensus pot, harmonized into the middle, so we don’t cause…