2015 Symposium – Luke Torrisi
Don’t Mention the War! Conservatives’ Forgotten Role The Paleoconservative or Traditionalist is a lonely soul.1 They often feel displaced, going about their business in a…
Materialism
2015 Symposium – Michael Tung
Ride That Tiger Or, The Party’s an Ass “… I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though it contains (and…
2015 Symposium – Morgan Qasabian (Part 3)
Conservative Prospects in the Second Age of Malcolm Part Three VI The need for a social movement cannot be merely posited; its need has to…
Quote of the Week: HRH Prince of Wales, “Harmony”
“Official thinking is just as bad. There are constant efforts to introduce GM technology and to encourage ‘efficient,’ economy of scale systems of farming which,…
Quote of the Week: Ezra Pound, “An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States”
“Man has been reduced not even to a digestive tube, but to a bag of money that gradually is losing its value. This cycle has…
Quote of the Week: Luke Torrisi, Address at the University of Technology Sydney
“The word conservative is perhaps the most grossly misunderstood and misused word in current political dialogue. A lot of people are running around calling themselves…
Quote of the Week: Francis Graham Wilson, “The Case for Conservatism”
“I do not think one needs to say that the defense of property means that we must defend a theoretical system of laissez-faire, that, in…
Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Literature and the American College”
“The humanism of the Renaissance was a protest against the excesses of the ascetic. Now that science aspires to be all in all, somewhat after…
The Great Man of History and the Fallacy of Equality
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? [Where is the Great Man?] (1 Corinthians…
Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Barlow Girl – Grey
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Luke Torrisi. The notes were produced for a broadcast of 11…