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…
Parliamentarism
Quote of the Week: Thomas Molnar, “Authority and Its Enemies”
“If we admit that the State possesses the ultimate authority without which other institutions would lack theirs, we understand that this authority may be threatened…
Yesterday, Australia Voted…
After knifing Tony Abbott and assuming leadership of the Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull promised to usher in an age of fiscal discipline, tax cuts and…
2016 Symposium – Gwendolyn Taunton
Nietzsche: The Physician of Culture Do not be afraid of the stream of things: this stream turns back on itself: it runs away from itself…
“The Politics of Disarmament is Suicidal”
While the Rest of the West moves towards incremental civilian disarmament, some are beginning to realise that the policies that enfeeble a nation are not…
2015 Symposium – Morgan Qasabian (Part 2)
Conservative Prospects in the Second Age of Malcolm Part Two [Return to: Part One] IV Tony Abbott went to the 2013 election promising to restore freedom…
2015 Symposium – Valdis Grinsteins
When a Conservative Feels that he is a Foreigner in His own Home Several times I have heard the joke among conservatives that the conservative…
Quote of the Week: Andrew Fraser, “Monarchs and Miracles”
“The Crown has always been under a positive duty to protect the spirit of British liberty. That obligation became especially compelling once universal suffrage permitted…
The Maximal Monarchy: A Monarchist’s Case Against Crowned Republicanism
¶ It’s now been almost two months since Tony Abbott’s Liberal government came to power over the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd-led Labor Party. The relative swing from left to…
Quote of the Week: Edmund Burke, “Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll in Bristol”
“Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most…