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…
Totalitarianism
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bonus Quote No.8 (Special March ’16 Mardi Gras Edition): Franklin Kameny and Richard Isay cited by Robert Reilly
“At a Human Rights Campaign dinner, which celebrated him as an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) civil right hero, the late Franklin Kameny said, ‘I have…
Marriage Alliance gets the #RainbowNoose
In a move that has ironically validated the claims of Australia’s main pro-marriage lobby group, FaceBook has temporarily “blocked” Marriage Alliance from using its platform….
Quote of the Week: José Ortega y Gasset, “Revolt of the Masses”
“The mass-man regards himself as perfect. The select man, in order to regard himself so, needs to be specially vain, and the belief in his…
The Defenestration of an Apparent Heretic
Readers in the online Sidestream may be aware of the recent defenestration of software developer and principal of Urbit, Curtis Yarvin, who was ‘disinvited’ from…
Quote of the Week: Eric Voegelin, “The Political Religions”
“When the heart is sensitive and the mind is perceptive, one look at the world will suffice to see the misery of the human creature…