Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Aaron Tippin – You Gotta Stand for Somethin’
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 last…
Morality
Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Taylor Swift – Brought Up That Way
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Dominik Giemza. The notes were produced for a broadcast of Monday,…
First “Shots Fired” in Australia’s Culture War, 2014
Cory Bernardi wrote a book late last year titled The Conservative Revolution (Connor Court, 2013). To most thinking Conservatives the more controversial element of the…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part II: Existentialism
I. Introduction If we’re going to tackle the Frankfurt School, we ought to understand their ideas. In order to understand their ideas, we have to…
Quote of the Week: Samuel Coleridge, “The Statesman’s Manual”
“Need I add the inherent unfitness, as well as the direful consequences, of making virtue … depend on talent – a gift so unequally dispensed…
Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Democracy and Leadership”
“Now the doctrine of enlightened self-interest is not itself superficial. It has been held by profound thinkers like Aristotle and Buddha. But the self that…
Quote of the Week: Jesse Helms, “The Ramparts We Watched”
“So, in a very real sense, the character of government is largely an inverse reflection of the character of the people. The weaker the people,…
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Minogue, “Conservative Realism”
“This drive to manage society is in our time so pervasive that it has spread beyond the area of political debate and is now enthusiastically…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Moral traditions, then, are enabling rather than productive; defensive rather than venturesome regulative rather than goal-directed. A moral tradition is working well if no one…
Quote of the Week: Michael Whelan, “Without God All Things Are Lawful”
“There is, if you like, an inescapable logic implicit here. It goes something like this: ♦ when God (the transcendent, the ultimate, the divine dimension)…