2016 Symposium – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony: Art Transcending Politics The topic is not only compound but complex, associating itself with numerous difficulties. The term transcendence, for example, is…
Religion
2016 Symposium – Michael Tung
A World Turned Upside Down: Finding True North in the Last Hour In this essay I will attempt to sketch out the Traditionalist view of…
2016 Symposium – Valdis Grinsteins
The failure of Utopian Europe The great advantage of seeing things from afar is that the whole can be appreciated without the observer being distracted…
2016 Symposium – Valdis Grinsteins
El Fracaso de la Europa Utopista. La gran ventaja de ver las cosas de lejos es que fácilmente observamos el conjunto y no nos distraemos…
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…
Quote of the Week: Arthur Versluis “Antimodernism”
“If the essence of modernism is progress, a belief that technological development means socioeconomic improvement, the heart of antimodernism is a realization that ‘progress’ has an underbelly – that…
Brazilian Founder of Femen renounces Feminism, Embraces Christianity
The founder of Brazil’s ‘chapter’ of the international pornographic protest movement Femen has renounced feminism, embraced pro-life politics, apologised to Christians and expressed a desire to…
Quote of the Week: Thomas Carlyle, “The Latter Day Pamphlets”
“The Universe itself is a Monarchy and Heirarchy [sic]; large liberty of ‘voting’ there, all manner of choice, utmost free-will, but with conditions inexorable and…
Quote of the Week: Robert Lewis Dabney, “Discussions”
“These attempts to do the impossible illustrate the most absurd enterprise of all: the attempt of our modern materialistic infidels to abolish religion. The Commune…
2015 Symposium – Frank Salter
Australian Conservatism after Abbott: The Need for Social Movements Following the replacement of Tony Abbott by Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister, some conservatives are asking…