The Year in Review: 2019, Started as Tragedy, Ended as Tragicomedy
Every year for the non-Boomer right seems like a watershed, and 2019 was no exception. The year that passed was marked by shattered hopes and…
Roger Scruton
Can Great Poetry Survive the Post-revolutionary West?
This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 27 September 2019 by Prof. Barry Spurr, as part of the…
Sam Harris: The Unconverted
René Girard argues that all the great tales are conversion stories; the sinner redeemed. This is why Dostoevsky novels are ultimately uplifting. As someone commented,…
2017 Symposium II – Barry Spurr
Reclaiming the University The tolerance practised by modern elites is tyrannical. They say: ‘You must listen to what I am going to say. Then you…
Aesthetic Knowledge
Aesthetic subjectivism, or “relativism,” is the view that beauty is solely in the eye of the beholder. The term “relativism” is sometimes used to indicate…
Equal & Opposite – On Dispositionalism
In a recent post for The Spectator Australia I signaled the end (perhaps prematurely) of my willingness to put up with the endless stream of…
2017 Symposium – Richard Cocks
Philosophy and The Crisis of the Modern World To find a way out of the current confusions and rifts in modern Western societies, and for…
Political Correctness and the Death of Education – Requiem for a Dream
In The One By Whom Scandal Comes (2014) René Girard writes: “Every culture takes a dim view of anyone who does not unconditionally prefer the native…
Quote of the Week: Peter King, “Reaction: Against the Modern World”
“Their greatest asset is the very ability they have to eviscerate the modern world and to point to its follies and contradictions. They may be…
2015 Symposium – Morgan Qasabian (Part 2)
Conservative Prospects in the Second Age of Malcolm Part Two [Return to: Part One] IV Tony Abbott went to the 2013 election promising to restore freedom…