Quote of the Week: George Santayana, “Skepticism and Animal Faith”
“It is true that, quite apart from living discourse, a set of axioms and postulates, as simple as we like, may be posited in the…
Tradition
Quote of the Week: James Kalb, “Against Inclusiveness”
“When a tendency has gone to extremes, it is most evident that something must be done to oppose it. Opposing one aspect of it may…
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Minogue, “Conservative Realism”
“This drive to manage society is in our time so pervasive that it has spread beyond the area of political debate and is now enthusiastically…
Quote of the Week: Philippe Vardun, “Generation Identity” (Forward)
“They have defiled our flags, erased our frontiers, twisted the very names of things. With them, the homeland is no longer the land of one’s…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Moral traditions, then, are enabling rather than productive; defensive rather than venturesome regulative rather than goal-directed. A moral tradition is working well if no one…
Quote of the Week: Russell Kirk, “The Paleoconservatives”
“Traditions also have been defended upon empirical grounds. That a society seems to have thrived when it obeyed the dictates of tradition, and seemed to…
Ideology In Our Vexicology
(Feature image: Postcard celebrating our Family of Nations (date unknown). Far from being ‘divisive’ or ‘irrelevant’, the Union Flag has been a unifying symbol for disparate peoples across the…
Quote of the Week: Allen Tate, “Essays of Four Decades”
“The kind of property that sustains the traditional society is not only not hostile to a unified moral code; it is positively the basis of…
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“The meaningful moral choice is not between conforming and nonconforming but between conforming to the ephemeral, stereotyped values of the moment and conforming to the…
Conservative Tales No.1: The Instruction of Tradition
A national or racial culture exists when the works (art, letters) of that nation do not and do not need to ask favours because they…