The Year in Review: 2020, was “Mostly Peaceful” [sic]
2020 will be remembered as the year that was “mostly peaceful” – meaning, it was anything but. Indeed, the phrase “mostly peaceful” – followed closely…
Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫)
Meeting Mark Latham – A Curious Identitarianism for Australia
A contingent of STF stalwarts attended an event organised by dissidents within mainstream party politics that featured guest speakers Mark Latham and Ross Cameron. They…
The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner [Part III]
The BBC obituary for Venner begins with the following sentence: “Dominique Venner, the far-right French essayist who shot himself before the altar of Notre Dame…
The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner [Part I]
Dominique Venner (born 16 April 1935) ended his life publicly and dramatically by shooting himself in the mouth before the altar of Our Lady of…
Quote of the Week: Yukio Mishima “Sword”
“He would just have to put up with it; if you couldn’t bear even one single thing through to the end, then you might as…
Quote of the Week: Yukio Mishima, “Confessions of a Mask”
“It’s a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.” ▪ Yukio…
Quote of the Week: Yukio Mishima, “Spring Snow”
“For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or…
Quote of the Week: Yukio Mishima, “Sun & Steel”
“The nature of this steel is odd. I found that as I increased its weight little by little, the effect was like a pair of…
Quote of the Week: Yukio Mishima, “Runaway Horses”
“How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory…
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…