2015 Symposium – Alastair Hermann
The Abbott Aberration Tony Abbott was the most conservative Prime Minister in Australia’s recent history, yet when history writes up his tenure it will regard…
Political Authority
Quote of the Week: Eugene Genovese, “The Southern Tradition”
“Still, whatever may go on in New York and the Bay Area, in Dixie and across much of the American heartland a lot of folks,…
Quote of the Week: Michael Anissimov, “A Critique of Democracy”
“The first step to being able to consider democracy as an option, rather than a mandatory necessity for any civilized country, is to go back…
Quote of the Week: Thomas Molnar, “Utopia, the Perennial Heresy”
“In his desire to start from the ‘unspoiled beginning,’ the utopian feels he must clear away what has gone before, that is, everything from the…
Quote of the Week: Anthony Ludovici, “A Defence of Conservatism”
“The opposition of a great conservative like the Seventh Earl of Shaftsbury to the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867, and the Ballot Act of…
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: A. V. Dicey, “Introduction to the study of the Law of The Constitution”
“Yet even if we confine our observations to the existing condition of Europe, we shall soon be convinced that the ‘Rule of Law’ even in…
Quote of the Week: William Gladstone, “The State in its Relation with the Church”
“Wherever there is power in the universe, that power is the property of God, the king of that universe – his property of right, however…