2017 Symposium – James Kalb
Identity and the Civilization of the West Identity has become a problem today. No one seems sure where it comes from, what it is for,…
Popular Culture
Quote of the Week: Jonathan Bowden, “Western Civilization Bites Back”
“If you look at mass popular culture, the heroic is still alive. It’s still alive in junk films, in comic books, in forms that culturally…
Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Drive (for Daddy Gene)
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Luke Torrisi. The notes were produced for a recent broadcast, 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…
2016 Symposium – Kristor J. Lawson
The Social Contract with the Logos Society as manifest in all its organs and instruments – including the individual – is mediated by a web…
2016 Symposium – James Kalb
Liberalism as a Religion The strange and increasingly nonfunctional condition of Western political and social life cannot easily be changed, because its causes are quite…
Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Danny Dill and Mel Tilli – Detroit City
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,…
Quote of the Week: Fabian Tassano, “Mediocracy”
“Mediocracy cannot permit genuine dissent. Apart from the fact that its ideology cannot be questioned, there is a risk that its high culture will be…
The Liberal Culture Olympics
One could say that the Eurovision song contest is the Liberal Olympics except that the Olympics have themselves become so attuned to the zeitgeist it…
Poem: “Accents”
In this world, there are various accents around, And each speaker emits a particular sound. Did you know that your accent reveals who you are?…