Quote of the Week: Ernst Jünger, “The Forest Passage”
“Fundamentally, freedom and tyranny cannot be considered in isolation, although we observe them succeeding each other in time. It can clearly be said that tyranny…
Freedom
René Guénon and Eric Voegelin on the Degeneration of Right Order [Part II]
I Guénon, Voegelin, and the Modern Crisis. The concupiscent subject’s response to the Siren Song of the ecumene, to conquer and possess it, qualifies as…
2016 Symposium – Krzysztof Urbanek
Adversus Haereses: Nicolás Gómez Dávila Against the Religion of Democracy¹ I Nicolás Gómez Dávila2 is primarily known for his authorship of the five volume work…
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 – James Kalb
Liberalism as a Religion The strange and increasingly nonfunctional condition of Western political and social life cannot easily be changed, because its causes are quite…
Quote of the Week: James Kalb, “Against Inclusiveness”
“It is very difficult for liberal public discussion to reject and suppress the clear indications of science and scholarship, but inclusiveness must do so in order to…
Quote of the Week: Adam L. Tate (on Nathaniel Tucker), “Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals”
“Moral behavior, a central component of society, rested on the strength of the will. Tucker called the human will ‘the master of DESTINY.’ For Tucker,…
Quote of the Week: Luke Torrisi, Address at the University of Technology Sydney
“The first thing about the enduring moral order is that […] it’s got to be something that is permanent, it’s got to be something that…
Quote of the Week: Theodore Dalrymple, “Our Culture, What’s Left of It”
“Even Mill came to see the limitations of his own principle as a guide for policy and to deny that all pleasures were of equal…
Quote of the Week: Cory Bernardi, “The Conservative Revolution”
“Thus when the conservative discusses freedom, he accepts that while maximising it is a worthy goal, it must nevertheless always be balanced by the broader…