Quote of the Week: Chilton Williamson Jr., “Chronicles Magazine”
“Partisans of the political vision and the moral ideal implied in the modern ‘version of the universal’ view the ultimate perfection of the European Union…
Democracy
Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Neil Peart – The Trees
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Dominik Giemza. The notes were produced for a broadcast of Monday,…
Quote of the Week: René Guénon, “Crisis of the Modern World”
“Finally, there remains one direct consequence of the democratic idea to consider, and this is the negation of the idea of an elite; it is…
Quote of the Week: Dinesh D’Souza, “Letter to a Young Conservative”
“The people in democratic society empower their government to act in their interest. Why should their elected representatives be neutral between their interests and, say,…
Not Your Traditional Idea of Education
Some would regard it as a brilliant piece of modern advertising. It is personal, crisp, direct. It carries a simple and effective message: “Oh come…
Quote of the Week: G. K. Chesterton, “Orthodoxy”
“Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. All democrats object to men being…
Quote of the Week: Carl Schmitt, “The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy”
“Thus democracy appeared to have the self-evidence of an irresistible advancing and expanding force. So long as it was essentially a polemical concept (that is, the negation…
Quote of the Week: Guillaume Faye, “Archeofuturism”
“The system, which is running out of steam, is actually trying to operate a democtomy: a ‘restrictive amputation of democracy.’ This is where it’s gotten. The…
Quote of the Week: Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America”
“Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels …
Quote of the Week: Maurice Cowling, “The Nature and Limits of Political Science”
“Governments which have ‘succeeded’ (in an administrative or governmental sense) may nevertheless ‘fail’ in an electoral sense; and there is no reason to suppose that…