Quote of the Week: Cory Bernardi, Address to the National Press Club (17 July 2014)
“Many of us are involved in politics because we have an interest in the future of our community […] we want to make a positive contribution…
Reform
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…
The Dangers of “Enlightened” Foolery
“If two consenting adults want to live together in close union and can find a consenting minister of religion to bless their union, who are…
Quote of the Week: Paul Elmer More, “Aristocracy and Justice”
“There is, in fact, a terrible confusion hidden in the New Morality, an ulcerous evil that is ever working inward. Sympathy, creating the desire for…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Some liberals start with a contract that rational and self-interested agents would supposedly arrive at in a hypothetical situation, and evaluate political arrangements on the…
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Pickthorn
“A Conservative is a man who believes that in politics the onus of proof is on the proposer of change … Marks of the Conservative…
Quote of the Week: Michael Oakeshott, “Rationalism in Politics”
“From all this the man of conservative temperament draws some appropriate conclusions. First, innovation entails certain loss and possible gain, therefore, the onus of proof,…