The End of History and the Last Man (book)

Events and Functions 4 February 2019

Suicide of the West: Towards a Universal Homogeneous Super-State

This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 23 November 2018 by Prof. Ted Sadler, as part of the…

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…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 24 December 2019

Metanarrative Collapse? Whether the Christian Cosmology Invented by St. Augustine of Hippo Has Stood the Test of Time [Pt. II]

[See Part I of this essay here] IV Augustine’s Hellenistic Hermeneutic Augustine’s interpretation of the Biblical metanarrative portrays both the creation and the end of…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 23 December 2019

Metanarrative Collapse? Whether the Christian Cosmology Invented by St. Augustine of Hippo Has Stood the Test of Time [Pt. I]

I Introduction From its beginnings in the first century A.D. Christianity anchored its cosmology in the Bible. But what is the Bible? As a book…

News and Opinion 5 December 2019

The Stupid Movement “Wins” Again

We at the Sydney Traditionalist Forum have frequently been critical of “establishment” or “mainstream conservatives” who are incapable of anything beyond compromise or principled-defeat. The…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 2 December 2019

The Ethnic Predicaments of the Shrinking White Majority

Review of Eric Kaufmann, Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities (Penguin, 2018). 624 pages. This is the second part of the review,…

Events and Functions 28 November 2019

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…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 9 June 2019

Past and Future Gulags

Vladimir Solovyov’s insightful The Crisis of Western Philosophy can enlighten us today as to the importance of re-telling history to educate subsequent generations. With its…

Events and Functions 12 May 2019

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…

Events and Functions 4 May 2019

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…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 24 March 2019

A Manifesto of Neo-Romanticism

He is thinking: “See how God writes straigh on crooked lines.”1 What realistic form can a manifesto of neo-romanticism take in a positivistic age? How…

Events and Functions 4 February 2019

Suicide of the West: Towards a Universal Homogeneous Super-State

This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 23 November 2018 by Prof. Ted Sadler, as part of the…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 10 January 2019

Scientism, Existential Reflection and God

I Scientism, Science and Technology Scientism is not science. Instead, scientism is an ideology that reduces man’s hope and aspirations to the scientific method. Scientism…

News and Opinion 31 December 2018

The Year in Review: 2018, Year of Rage, Year of Hope

As this summary of issues for 2018 is being drafted, possibly the biggest event on the political landscape is the Government shutdown threatened by US…

Essays, Dissertations and Studies 22 October 2018

Marxism and Secularism’s Cultural Overreach

I God is the “Opiate of the People” For Karl Marx, God is what he calls the “opiate of the people.” That is, belief in…

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The End of History and the Last Man (book)