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Quote of the Week: Joseph Sobran, “Pensées”
“Liberalism has come to stand for an obsession with the abnormal for its own sake—the minority, the dissident, the outsider, the deviant, and so on. One detects an actual preference for the Soviet...
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Quote of the Week: Alain de Benoist, “The Problem of Democracy”
“All ancient authors who have extolled democracy have praised it not because it is an intrinsically egalitarian regime, but because it is a regime in which competition is open to all and enables a...
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Quote of the Week: Bryan Caplan, “The Myth of the Rational Voter”
“In the end, apologists for democracy often fall back on Winston Churchill’s slogan, ‘Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.’ On...
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Quote of the Week: T. S. Eliot, “After Strange Gods”
“I hold – in summing up – that a tradition is rather a way of feeling and acting which characterises a group throughout generations; and that it must largely be, or that many of the elements in it...
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Quote of the Week: Ezra Pound, “An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the...
“Man has been reduced not even to a digestive tube, but to a bag of money that gradually is losing its value. This cycle has lasted three centuries; from the arrival of the pilgrims who sought freedom...
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Quote of the Week: Mark Steyn, “After America”
“Two generations ago, America, Canada, Australia, and the rest of the developed world took it as read that a sovereign nation had the right to determine which, if any, foreigners it extended rights of...
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Quote of the Week: George Orwell, “As I Please”
“Nationalism is universally regarded as inherently Fascist, but this is held only to apply to such national movements as the speaker happens to disapprove of. Arab nationalism, Polish nationalism,...
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Quote of the Week: Mary Eliza Haweis, “The Art of Beauty”
Mary Eliza Haweis (1848-1898) “Alas, when people complain of men not marrying (even they who are able), they forget how little women offer in exchange for all they get by marriage. Girls are so seldom...
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Quote of the Week: Eugene Genovese, “The Southern Tradition”
Eugene Genovese (1930-2012) Marxist historian of the US South. “Still, whatever may go on in New York and the Bay Area, in Dixie and across much of the American heartland a lot of folks, black and...
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Quote of the Week: Léon Krier, “The Architecture of Community”
Prof. Léon Krier of the Neotraditionalist school of contemporary architecture. “Just like artists, experimental scientists generally make discoveries not by systematic thought but by leaps of...
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Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Aesthetics of Architecture”
“Contemporary architects often speak of ‘design problems’ and ‘design solutions’, and in that notion of design is encapsulated, as a rule, precisely the attempt to which I have referred, the attempt to...
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Quote of the Week: HRH Prince of Wales, “Harmony”
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales “Official thinking is just as bad. There are constant efforts to introduce GM technology and to encourage ‘efficient,’ economy of scale systems of farming which, of course,...
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Quote of the Week: George Santayana, “The Sense of Beauty; being The Outlines...
Ҥ14. The function of reproduction carries with it not only direct modifications of the body and mind, but a whole set of social institutions, for the existence of which social institutions and habits...
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Quote of the Week: José Ortega y Gasset, “Revolt of the Masses”
“The mass-man regards himself as perfect. The select man, in order to regard himself so, needs to be specially vain, and the belief in his perfection is not united with him consubstantially, it is not...
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Quote of the Week: Francis Graham Wilson, “The Case for Conservatism”
“The chaos of the day is a reflection of the failure of the consolidated liberalism of another era to reach its goal in the immediate present. In the nature of the case, since liberal and revolutionary...
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Quote of the Week: Hugh Cecil, “Conservatism”
“The centre of the Constitution is the Monarchy. Probably everyone would agree in naming the Monarchy as an institution which is was desirable to preserve, and the preservation of which was an...
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Quote of the Week: Mircea Eliade, “The Portugal Journal”
Mircea Eliade (1907 – 1986) “My lack of interest for sociology, Marxism, and so forth is owing to the statement often made that these disciplines give you the illusion of having global explanations of...
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Quote of the Week: Keith Preston, “Aristokratia” (Vol. 3, 2015)
“The guiding principles of contemporary liberal democracies are an all-pervasive consumerism and loudly proclaiming one’s own status as an official victim of historic or cosmic injustices, whether real...
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Quote of the Week: Luke Torrisi, Address at the University of Technology Sydney
“The first thing about the enduring moral order is that […] it’s got to be something that is permanent, it’s got to be something that continues throughout time as a constant golden thread. The enduring...
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Quote of the Week: Paul Gottfried, “Encounters”
“Of all political attitudes, antimonarchism in the modern age has always struck me as the most bizarre. How can one get annoyed over a middle aged maternal figurehead symbolizing imperial unity? When I...
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