Quote of the Week: Howard S. Schwartz, “Society Against Itself”
“Political correctness has to generalize. Meaning is structured around the pursuit of a fantasy, and that fantasy is never realized. This means that, in principle,…
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Quote of the Week: Jonathan Bowden, “Western Civilization Bites Back”
“If you look at mass popular culture, the heroic is still alive. It’s still alive in junk films, in comic books, in forms that culturally…
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“Conversely, the trade-union movement in the English Speaking world (see pages 84-87) often represents not the massman or Overadjusted Man but an anti-modern, unconsciously conservative…
Quote of the Week: Slavoj Žižek, “The Sublime Object of Ideology”
“When a discipline is in crisis, attempts are made to change or supplement its theses within the terms of its basic framework – a procedure one might…
2016 Symposium – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony: Art Transcending Politics The topic is not only compound but complex, associating itself with numerous difficulties. The term transcendence, for example, is…
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: Thomas Molnar, “The Counter-Revolution”
“The ideological energy this doctrine was able to generate was immense, it was Christian energy redirected towards purely secular and utopian ends. First of all,…
The Petty Circular Firing Squads of Feminist Journalism in Australia
Over the past few days, a furore has erupted in the Australian media over an interview on Sydney-based Channel 7 breakfast show Sunrise on Thursday…
Brazilian Founder of Femen renounces Feminism, Embraces Christianity
The founder of Brazil’s ‘chapter’ of the international pornographic protest movement Femen has renounced feminism, embraced pro-life politics, apologised to Christians and expressed a desire to…
Quote of the Week: Eugene Genovese, “The Southern Tradition”
“But most conservatives have distrusted ideological crusades, especially those which remind them of Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman and profess to stand at Armageddon and battle…