Quote of the Week: Yukio Mishima, “Confessions of a Mask”
“It’s a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.” ▪ Yukio…
Identity
Acknowledgment of Nation
Earlier today, we made the point of emphasizing the importance of asserting a robust and unapologetic national identity in the face of external threats, that this…
Australia Day 2015: Some French Reflections
It is no simple task to reflect on our nation this Australia Day, 2015. It seems that many of the items that have dominated the…
Quote of the Week: Andrew Fraser, “Monarchs and Miracles”
“The Crown has always been under a positive duty to protect the spirit of British liberty. That obligation became especially compelling once universal suffrage permitted…
Acknowledgment of Nation
“I acknowledge the Federal Commonwealth, created by the nation under the Crown to defend its undivided sovereignty over all Australia’s lands and waters. “I acknowledge…
The Sacred Grove: Natural Space and the Numinous
I A pervasive interest in the association of natural space with the sacred is a noticeable tendency in the work of some important Traditionalists. Tolkien,…
Quote of the Week: Tomislav Sunić, “Postmortem Report”
“What makes a people? A people has a common heritage and a will to a common destiny. A people exists despite superficial cleavages such as…
Quote of the Week: Guillaume Faye, “Archeofuturism”
“Moreover, as the philosopher Raymond Ruyer, detested by the left-bank intelligentsia, foretold in his two important works, Les nuisances idéologiques and Les cents prochains siècles,…
The Liberal Culture Olympics
One could say that the Eurovision song contest is the Liberal Olympics except that the Olympics have themselves become so attuned to the zeitgeist it…
Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan – I was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Dominik Giemza. The notes were produced for a broadcast of Monday,…