Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Need for Nations”
“It is my contention that people need to identify themselves through a first person plural if they are to accept the sacrifices required by society….
“It is my contention that people need to identify themselves through a first person plural if they are to accept the sacrifices required by society….
The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk— I cannot feel his mind. I see…
“In the traditional or Classical-Christian view, life is experienced as participation in (or as rebellion against) a comprehensive order of existence – natural, social and…
“And therein lies Hitler’s revenge – the cultural leveling that either emerged from, or was, in some crucial way, accentuated by natural outrage over the…
Universities in Australia have been hot-beds of radicalism for decades since the social revolt of the 1960’s permeated all facets of academic and student life….
“It is very difficult to know people and I don’t think one can ever really know any but one’s own countrymen. For men and women…
“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…
“The belief that immigrants from non-Western countries can morally improve Americans is a by-product of the ideology of democratic universalism. The establishment conservatives (who, to…