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…
Traditionalism
Quote of the Week: Theodore Roosevelt, Address to the National Convention of Mothers
“No piled-up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no brilliance of artistic development, will permanently avail any people unless its home life is healthy, unless…
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“Even so called ‘absolute’ monarchies were in practice limited by such private groups as an independent clergy, nobility, bourgeois Third Estate, guilds of workers and those real…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Meaning of Conservatism”
“The common law, for example, contains information that could not be contained in a legislative programme – information about conflicts and their resolution, about the sense of…
Quote of the Week: Russell Kirk, “The Conservative Mind”
“I think that there are six canons of conservative thought – Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Conservatism has different versions because its advocates disagree about what political arrangements would make a society good. There is, however, no disagreement about having to…
Quote of the Week: Thomas Fleming, “The New Right Papers”
“The struggle for power, then, is not a bilateral conflict between ‘liberals’ like Ted Kennedy and conservatives like Ronald Reagan. It is a trilateral (pardon the…