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…
Revolution
Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Neil Peart – The Trees
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: Juan Donoso Cortés, “Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism”
“And what we have said of ages, can be said of men. Denying or granting them the faith, God denies or grants them the truth….
Pied Noir
¶ When Venner shot himself Jean and I went to see Papa because we knew he’d be a wreck. When we made it to the house…
Third Documentary Screening, Friday 8 March 2013
Last Friday, 8 March 2013, the Sydney Traditionalist Forum held its third documentary broadcast in its series of conservative educational films. This was the first…
Australia Day 2013
There is much to reflect on this Australia Day, 26 January 2013. This Antipodean island continent that has remained, so far, strongly part of the…
Quote of the Week: Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, “Revolution and Counter-Revolution”
“Everything that has been said herein provides grounds for a practical observation. “Spirits marked by this interior Revolution might conserve a counter-revolutionary attitude in respect…
Quote of the Week: Edward Shils “Tradition”
“Some of the ideals of the Enlightenment have not been realised. Others have been realised and are contradictory, and as a result, evil potentialities have…
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…