First “Shots Fired” in Australia’s Culture War, 2014
Cory Bernardi wrote a book late last year titled The Conservative Revolution (Connor Court, 2013). To most thinking Conservatives the more controversial element of the…
Edmund Burke
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part II: Existentialism
I. Introduction If we’re going to tackle the Frankfurt School, we ought to understand their ideas. In order to understand their ideas, we have to…
Quote of the Week: Edmund Burke, “An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs”
“We have obligations to mankind at large, which are not in consequence of any special voluntary pact […] Our country is not a thing of…
Conservative Tales No. 2: Tradition as Language
Last Christmas I had to undertake the awful task of combing the bowels of a ‘shopping centre’ to find some inexpensive ‘stocking fillers’ for my…
Quote of the Week: Edmund Burke, “Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll in Bristol”
“Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most…
Quote of the Week: Patrick Buchanan, “1992 Republican National Convention Speech”
“There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind…
T. S. Eliot and Reactionary Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century
T. S. Eliot is best known as the greatest poet of the twentieth century. Less known, at least in the popular imagination, is his substantial…
Quote of the Week: Sean Gabb, Address to Conservative Future
“A Cameron Government, as I have said, seems willing to try coexistence with the Establishment. The Thatcher Government set out to fight and defeat an…
Quote of the Week: Edmund Burke “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
“Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave…
Quote of the Week: Russell Kirk, “The Conservative Mind”
“I think that there are six canons of conservative thought – Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as…