Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Elvis Presley, “Only The Strong Survive”
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Dominik Giemza. The notes were produced for a broadcast of Monday,…
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Thinking Right About Pop Culture: Wilbert Harrison, “Let’s Stick Together”
What follows are programme notes for the “Conservative Song” segment of Radio Carpe Diem compiled by Dominik Giemza. The notes were produced for a broadcast…
Quote of the Week: Samuel Coleridge, “The Statesman’s Manual”
“Need I add the inherent unfitness, as well as the direful consequences, of making virtue … depend on talent – a gift so unequally dispensed…
Quote of the Week: Bill Cunningham, “New York”
“Then the army came along, this is 1951, I was drafted, well they were appalled that I would go and their investment would be on…
Conservative Tales No. 2: Tradition as Language
Last Christmas I had to undertake the awful task of combing the bowels of a ‘shopping centre’ to find some inexpensive ‘stocking fillers’ for my…
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…
Inaugural Cardinal Newman Dinner, 16 February 2013
Yesterday, the Australian Catholic Students Association hosted the inaugural “Cardinal Newman Dinner” in honour of the prominent leader of the nineteenth century New Oxford Movement which strove…
Quote of the Week: Paul Elmer More, “Aristocracy and Justice”
“There is, in fact, a terrible confusion hidden in the New Morality, an ulcerous evil that is ever working inward. Sympathy, creating the desire for…
Quote of the Week: Edmund Burke “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
“Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave…