2017 Symposium – Luke Torrisi
The Unspoken Moral Questions of Identity Myself against my brother. Myself and my brother against my cousin. Myself, my brother and my cousin against the…
Electoral Politics
2017 Symposium – Paul Gottfried
A View of the Political Scene The election of Donald Trump and the decisive ways in which he has acted against the immigration lobby and…
The Year in Review: 2016, Year of the Pivot
If 2015 was the Year of the Quickening, as reported in our last annual review, then the year that has passed represented a period in…
Tremors in the Overton
One of the interesting aspects of living towards the outer edges of the civilised world is that the Cathedral1 signal is far more refined than…
Yesterday, Australia Voted…
After knifing Tony Abbott and assuming leadership of the Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull promised to usher in an age of fiscal discipline, tax cuts and…
Human Nature News – Ways to Whiteness
Peter Baldwin, who served as a minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, has written a fascinating assault on whiteness studies, a branch of…
Quote of the Week: Thomas Carlyle, “The Latter Day Pamphlets”
“Unanimity on board ship ; yes, indeed, the ship’s crew may be very unanimous, which doubtless, for the time being, will be very comfortable to the ship’s…
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 – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs On Baudelairean Traditionalism I The Prelude Edwin Dyga invites a response to the question, Whither Conservatism – or rather “Quo Vadis,…
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…