2017 Symposium – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Identity: The Future of a Paradox When Publius Virgilius Maro, more familiarly Virgil, accepted the commission from Augustus, formerly Gaius Octavius, to create an…
Libertarianism
René Girard – Imitation and Life Without God
In preparation for teaching a literature course in the 1950s, René Girard reread some of the classic novels. In the process he realized that the…
Quote of the Week: Hans-Hermann Hoppe “Democracy: The God that Failed”
“It should be obvious then that and why libertarians must be moral and cultural conservatives of the most uncompromising kind. The current state of moral…
Quote of the Week: Justin Raimondo, “Reclaiming the American Right”
“In the post-Cold War world, libertarians and authentic conservatives are rediscovering their common Old Right heritage not in order to satisfy some purely scholarly impulse,…
Quote of the Week: George Nash, “The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945”
“For radical libertarianism (or anarchism, or radical capitalism – the names seemed interchangeable) drew most of its support not from established right-wing intellectuals but from…
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…
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…
Deconstructing ‘Progress’: Review of “The War on Human Nature in Australian Political Culture” (Frank Salter)
Dr. Frank Salter has been a critic of the progressive social project in Australia for at least the past several decades. It is rare to find…
Quote of the Week: Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Democracy – The God that Failed”
“Let me now come to an evaluation of contemporary conservatism, and then go on to explain why conservatives today must be antistatist libertarians and, equally…
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…