Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part I: Cultural Marxism
The Right-Wing Slogan of the Year for 2013 was Smash Cultural Marxism (followed shortly by Anti-Racist is a Code Word for Anti-White). It’s unclear if…
Roger Scruton
Classicism: Its Theory and Practice
I. The Question Anyone possessed with a literary enthusiasm has read a poem written in the last half-century or so that made them wince with…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Need for Nations”
“It is my contention that people need to identify themselves through a first person plural if they are to accept the sacrifices required by society….
Fourth Documentary Screening with Honoured Guest, Sen. Cory Bernardi, 8 April 2013
Last month, on Monday 8 April 2013, the Sydney Traditionalist Forum hosted its fourth documentary screening, the first which was attended by an honoured guest:…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “Green Philosophy”
“Even if we thought, as Peter Singer and his followers seem to think, that there is a class of uniquely reasonable people who will be…
T. S. Eliot and Reactionary Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century
T. S. Eliot is best known as the greatest poet of the twentieth century. Less known, at least in the popular imagination, is his substantial…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “Beauty”
“[E]verything I have said about the experience of beauty implies that it is rationally founded. It challenges us to find meaning in its object, to…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Meaning of Conservatism”
“Nevertheless, before discussing the issue of Church and State, we must look a little more closely at the motive of religion, if only because some…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Meaning of Conservatism”
“The common law, for example, contains information that could not be contained in a legislative programme – information about conflicts and their resolution, about the sense of…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Uses of Pessimism”
“I am aware that I belong to a kind, and that this kind has a place in nature. I am also aware that I depend…