Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part IV: Natural Rights
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.” — Robert Frost One of the most…
Traditionalism
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part II: Existentialism
I. Introduction If we’re going to tackle the Frankfurt School, we ought to understand their ideas. In order to understand their ideas, we have to…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part I: Cultural Marxism
The Right-Wing Slogan of the Year for 2013 was Smash Cultural Marxism (followed shortly by Anti-Racist is a Code Word for Anti-White). It’s unclear if…
The Maximal Monarchy: A Monarchist’s Case Against Crowned Republicanism
¶ It’s now been almost two months since Tony Abbott’s Liberal government came to power over the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd-led Labor Party. The relative swing from left to…
Classicism: Its Theory and Practice
I. The Question Anyone possessed with a literary enthusiasm has read a poem written in the last half-century or so that made them wince with…
Quote of the Week: G. K. Chesterton, “Orthodoxy”
“Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. All democrats object to men being…
Quote of the Week: Russell Kirk, “Heritage Foundation Lecture”
“The great line of demarcation in modern politics, Eric Voegelin used to point out, is not a division between liberals on one side and totalitarians…
Quote of the Week: Jonathan Bowden, Interview at the Union Jack Club, 21 November 2009
“Q. In what sense to you understand men and women to be different and in which way should societal and other institutional discrimination reflect those differences?”…
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…
T. S. Eliot and Reactionary Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century
T. S. Eliot is best known as the greatest poet of the twentieth century. Less known, at least in the popular imagination, is his substantial…