Can Great Poetry Survive the Post-revolutionary West?
This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 27 September 2019 by Prof. Barry Spurr, as part of the…
Managerial State
Suicide of the West: Towards a Universal Homogeneous Super-State
This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 23 November 2018 by Prof. Ted Sadler, as part of the…
The Year in Review: 2018, Year of Rage, Year of Hope
As this summary of issues for 2018 is being drafted, possibly the biggest event on the political landscape is the Government shutdown threatened by US…
2017 Symposium II – Kristor J. Lawson
Toward A New Aristocracy It is easy to show by a gedanken policy test¹ that, everything else held perfectly equal, a society ruled by its…
2017 Symposium – James Kalb
Identity and the Civilization of the West Identity has become a problem today. No one seems sure where it comes from, what it is for,…
The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner [Part III]
The BBC obituary for Venner begins with the following sentence: “Dominique Venner, the far-right French essayist who shot himself before the altar of Notre Dame…
Quote of the Week: James Allan, “Democracy in Decline”
“Users of the word democracy who opt for this fat, morally repugnant usage want it to convey two things. The first is a claim about…
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…
2016 Symposium – Valdis Grinsteins
The failure of Utopian Europe The great advantage of seeing things from afar is that the whole can be appreciated without the observer being distracted…
2016 Symposium – Luke Torrisi
Politics, Transcendence and the Corner Store These days I find far too many people, who profess to be on the side against progressive politics and…