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…
Thomas F. Bertonneau
Introduction and Welcome to the Second 2017 Symposium of the Sydney Traditionalist Forum
The last three years have been, to put it mildly, eventful. Cultural and political developments seem to have accelerated at a pace previously unimaginable: at…
2017 Symposium II – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Is Practicality Practical? Is practicality practical? The answer is, probably not, or at least that it is hard to tell, and that practicality, in any…
Vincent d’Indy, le Wagnerisme, & Tradition
Vincent d’Indy (1851 – 1931), a close contemporary of Sir Edward Elgar (1857 – 1934), studied under César Franck (1822 – 1890) at the Paris…
Introduction and Welcome to the 2017 Symposium of the Sydney Traditionalist Forum
“It’s been fourteen days since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump” – that was how we intended to commence our introduction to this latest…
2017 Symposium – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Identity: The Future of a Paradox When Publius Virgilius Maro, more familiarly Virgil, accepted the commission from Augustus, formerly Gaius Octavius, to create an…
The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner [Part III]
The BBC obituary for Venner begins with the following sentence: “Dominique Venner, the far-right French essayist who shot himself before the altar of Notre Dame…
The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner [Part II]
The limitations in Venner’s thought once established, it becomes possible to set forth in parallel an apology for his philosophical contribution. Venner’s active participation in…
The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner [Part I]
Dominique Venner (born 16 April 1935) ended his life publicly and dramatically by shooting himself in the mouth before the altar of Our Lady of…
The Illogicality of Determinism – Further Considerations
In “The Illogicality of Determinism” (The Orthosphere, 19 March 2016) I point out the absurdity and contradictions of arguing for determinism.¹ The sheer pointlessness of…