Quote of the Week: Michael Anissimov, “A Critique of Democracy”
“The first step to being able to consider democracy as an option, rather than a mandatory necessity for any civilized country, is to go back…
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Quote of the Week: John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty”
“Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in…
Australian Establicons: Expressions of European Identity must be Qualified
There are times when we have to wonder whether or not the Tony Abbott Experiment is not some complex trolling initiative a la the Manchurian Candidate. Not having…
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: Robert Lewis Dabney, “Discussions”
“It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent, Northern conservatism. This…
Quote of the Week: Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Democracy – The God that Failed”
“Let me now come to an evaluation of contemporary conservatism, and then go on to explain why conservatives today must be antistatist libertarians and, equally…
Quote of the Week: Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, “Leftism Revisited”
“Democracy is a political form, not a system of government. It has no social content, although the word is frequently misused in that sense. It…
Quote of the Week: Paul Gottfried, “War and Democracy”
“But there are limits to how far democratic welfare states will go to sustain capitalism. Democracy’s support for feminism, for example, creates short-term benefits but…
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: Cory Bernardi, “The Conservative Revolution”
“The survival instinct of our political representatives will never diminish, but history shows us that leaders who demonstrate conviction generally fare better than those without…