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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…

Events and Functions 24 December 2022

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…

News and Opinion 27 September 2021

Professor Thomas F. Bertonneau, Requiescat in Pace

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our friend and occasional contributor to SydneyTrads, Professor Thomas F. Bertonneau. News of this…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 19 January 2021

The National Question (A Response to Frank Salter)

This article is a response to Dr. Frank Salter’s address to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum, titled “Sir Henry Parkes’s Liberal-Ethnic Nationalism“, which was delivered on…

News and Opinion 29 December 2020

The Year in Review: 2020, was “Mostly Peaceful” [sic]

2020 will be remembered as the year that was “mostly peaceful” – meaning, it was anything but. Indeed, the phrase “mostly peaceful” – followed closely…

Events and Functions 18 December 2020

Sir Henry Parkes’s Liberal-Ethnic Nationalism

This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 5 December 2020 by Dr. Frank Salter, as part of the…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 5 October 2020

Conclusions from The History of Anticulture

We wish all our readers a very happy Labour Day! What follows is a translation of the last seven pages of Krzysztof Karoń’s first book…

News and Opinion 18 June 2020

Jean Raspail – Requiescat in Pace

Jean Raspail, who is perhaps best know as the author of the prophetic dystopian novel Camp of the Saints, passed away on Saturday 13 June…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 5 June 2020

Is “Cultural Marxism” a “Conspiracy Theory” or a Political Reality?

One of the greatest ironies of the twentieth century is that the “Captive Nations” of the Eastern Bloc, who were under the hegemony of hard…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 30 May 2020

Intellectuals and Democracy: The Case Against Radical Ideology

I Introduction: Revel and Popper on a “Way of Being for Man in the World” The first chapter of Jean-François Revel’s incisive 1983 book How…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 23 May 2020

Imagination, Innocence and Postmodernism

Maybe from all your mental somersaults will come a system that will satisfy you in the realm of pure signs, but it will be a…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 22 May 2020

Global Jesus versus National Jesus: The Political Hermeneutics of Resurrection [Pt. II]

[Part I was published Monday] I N. T. Wright on Paul’s Resurrection Theology: Global or National? Nicholas Thomas Wright, the former Anglican bishop of Durham,…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 18 May 2020

Global Jesus versus National Jesus: The Political Hermeneutics of Resurrection [Pt. I]

I Introduction Biblical interpretation is, if not the only, certainly the core task of theological hermeneutics. Unfortunately, religious conflict and biblical interpretation have always been…

News and Opinion 11 April 2020

Cardinal George Pell vs the Obsession Lobby

In a case that has garnered international attention and polarised the Australian community, earlier this week the High Court of Australia acquitted Cardinal George Pell…

Popular Culture 20 February 2020

Introducing the Jouvenalian Theory of Political Order

The more perceptive of our readers may have noticed our recent recommendation of the first book authored by neoreactionary Chris Bond, who is perhaps best…

News and Opinion 31 December 2019

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…

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2016 Symposium – Michael Tung