Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Drive (for Daddy Gene)
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Luke Torrisi. The notes were produced for a recent broadcast, and…
Family
Political Correctness and the Death of Education – Requiem for a Dream
In The One By Whom Scandal Comes (2014) René Girard writes: “Every culture takes a dim view of anyone who does not unconditionally prefer the native…
Quote of the Week: Carle C. Zimmerman, “Family and Civilization”
“This is the basic theme of family and civilisation. Civilization grows out of familism; as it grows it loses its original connection with the basic…
2016 Symposium – Kristor J. Lawson
The Social Contract with the Logos Society as manifest in all its organs and instruments – including the individual – is mediated by a web…
2016 Symposium – Valdis Grinsteins
The failure of Utopian Europe The great advantage of seeing things from afar is that the whole can be appreciated without the observer being distracted…
2016 Symposium – Luke Torrisi
Politics, Transcendence and the Corner Store These days I find far too many people, who profess to be on the side against progressive politics and…
2016 Symposium – Valdis Grinsteins
El Fracaso de la Europa Utopista. La gran ventaja de ver las cosas de lejos es que fácilmente observamos el conjunto y no nos distraemos…
Pro Marriage Campaigners Get the #RainbowNoose (Again)
Would it strike the reader as somewhat odd if a defendant in court proceedings were to be kept in the dark about the verdict in…
Quote of the Week: J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to his Son Concerning Women, Courtship and Romance
“You may meet in life (as in literature) women who are flighty, or even plain wanton — I don’t refer to mere flirtatiousness, the sparring…
Bonus Quote No.10 (Special March ’16 Mardi Gras Edition): Gary Dowsett, Gay Information Quarterly Journal (1982)
“And I also have a friend, a paedophile, who is working very hard on making sense out of his relations with boys. These relations consist…