Quote of the Week: Arthur Bryant, “Set in a Silver Sea”
“Rome had grown out of greatness of individual character. It became a community in which individual character counted for nothing compared with an abstraction which…
Libertarianism
Quote of the Week: Sean Gabb, Address to Conservative Future
“A Cameron Government, as I have said, seems willing to try coexistence with the Establishment. The Thatcher Government set out to fight and defeat an…
Bernardi Takes Knife for Excessive Honesty
South Australian Senator Cory Bernardi was recently forced to resign from the Opposition front bench, where he served as Parliamentary Secretary, after delivering an apparently controversial…
Quote of the Week: Quintin Hogg, “The Case for Conservatism”
“The aim of politics, as of all else, is the good life. But the good life is something which cannot be comprehended in some phrase or formula about any…
Quote of the Week: Theodore Dalrymple, “In Praise of Prejudice”
“But, as the great historian Lord Acton said, ‘Ideas have a radiation and a development, an ancestry and posterity of their own, in which men…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Uses of Pessimism”
“I am aware that I belong to a kind, and that this kind has a place in nature. I am also aware that I depend…
Quote of the Week: Thomas Fleming, “The New Right Papers”
“The struggle for power, then, is not a bilateral conflict between ‘liberals’ like Ted Kennedy and conservatives like Ronald Reagan. It is a trilateral (pardon the…