Quote of the Week: Carl Schmitt, “The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy”
“Thus democracy appeared to have the self-evidence of an irresistible advancing and expanding force. So long as it was essentially a polemical concept (that is, the negation…
Monarchy
T. S. Eliot and Reactionary Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century
T. S. Eliot is best known as the greatest poet of the twentieth century. Less known, at least in the popular imagination, is his substantial…
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…
Quote of the Week: Thomas Fleming, “The Morality of Everyday Life”
“Henceforth, any project of constructing a global empire would be seen as a second global rebellion against God. Although the punishment for Babel was cancelled…
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“Even so called ‘absolute’ monarchies were in practice limited by such private groups as an independent clergy, nobility, bourgeois Third Estate, guilds of workers and those real…
Quote of the Week: Benjamin Disraeli
“By the Conservative cause I mean the splendour of the Crown, the lustre of the Peerage, the privileges of the Commons, the rights of the…
Quote of the Week: John Michell, “Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist”
“Kingship is a religious office and its purpose is to uphold the sacred laws and standards of a nation. That is why it has been…