Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Democracy and Leadership”
“The remedy for such a failure of the man at the top to Curb his desires does not lie, as the agitator would have us…
Economics
2015 Symposium – Frank Salter
Australian Conservatism after Abbott: The Need for Social Movements Following the replacement of Tony Abbott by Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister, some conservatives are asking…
2015 Symposium – Luke Torrisi
Don’t Mention the War! Conservatives’ Forgotten Role The Paleoconservative or Traditionalist is a lonely soul.1 They often feel displaced, going about their business in a…
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: HRH Prince of Wales, “Harmony”
“Official thinking is just as bad. There are constant efforts to introduce GM technology and to encourage ‘efficient,’ economy of scale systems of farming which,…
Quote of the Week: Ezra Pound, “An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States”
“Man has been reduced not even to a digestive tube, but to a bag of money that gradually is losing its value. This cycle has…
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: Luke Torrisi, Address at the University of Technology Sydney
“The word conservative is perhaps the most grossly misunderstood and misused word in current political dialogue. A lot of people are running around calling themselves…
Sixth Documentary Screening, Friday 8 August 2014
Last evening the Sydney Traditionalist Forum hosted the sixth screening in its documentary series at the University of Sydney. This was the first event in…
Quadrant Predicts Possible Voter Backlash Against Abbott Government
Some fifteen days ago, SydneyTrads noted a not too flattering report by Christopher Carr in which he claimed that conservative voters have been betrayed by…