Capitalism: An Archaic Critique
This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 29 October 2022 by Mike Maxwell of Imperium Press, as part…
Sacred
Sanctifying the Norman Yoke: William the Conqueror, the Angelcynn Church and the Papal Revolution
This is the second of two essays that formed the basis of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 15 September 2018 by…
Making Angelcynns: How Alfred the Great Responded to the Viking Invasions
This is the first of two essays that formed the basis of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 15 September 2018 by…
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,…
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…
Is Western Civilization Misogynistic?
Resentment combines hatred and love/desire. Self-hatred and dissatisfaction often leads to imagining that someone else has it better and to resentfully desiring to be that…
The Sacred Grove: Natural Space and the Numinous
I A pervasive interest in the association of natural space with the sacred is a noticeable tendency in the work of some important Traditionalists. Tolkien,…
Quote of the Week: Yukio Mishima, “Spring Snow”
“For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part III: Carl Jung
As to the previous essay on Existentialism, it could be surmised that man’s obligation to construct meaning in his own life is limited only to…