The Year in Review: 2015, Year of the Quickening
Wieża Babel sama upada.¹ [“The Tower of Babel falls under its own weight”] 2015 has been an interesting year. If it is to be immediately remembered…
Identity
Quote of the Week: Jean-Pierre Changeux, “What Makes Us Think?”
“On the other hand, what is true for language is also true, by implication, for a particular system of cultural representations, of legal and ethical…
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 – Michael Tung
Ride That Tiger Or, The Party’s an Ass “… I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though it contains (and…
2015 Symposium – Morgan Qasabian (Part 1)
Conservative Prospects in the Second Age of Malcolm Part One I On 15 September this year, a left-wing Prime Minister was sworn in. The 29th…
2015 Symposium – Morgan Qasabian (Part 3)
Conservative Prospects in the Second Age of Malcolm Part Three VI The need for a social movement cannot be merely posited; its need has to…
2015 Symposium – Paul Edward Gottfried
Paleoconservatism: A Vanishing Traditional Right The apparent discontent and turmoil among Australian traditionalists after the ousting of the former Prime Minister by the socially liberal…
Quote of the Week: Paul Gottfried, “Encounters”
“Of all political attitudes, antimonarchism in the modern age has always struck me as the most bizarre. How can one get annoyed over a middle…
Faux-Conservatism Alive and Well at Sydney University
Every so often I am provided with a piece of writing, where the author purports to be a “conservative”, so that I may offer comment…