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Quote of the Week: Thomas Carlyle, “The Latter Day Pamphlets”
“Unanimity on board ship ; yes, indeed, the ship’s crew may be very unanimous, which doubtless, for the time being, will be very comfortable to the ship’s crew, and to their Phantasm Captain if they...
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Quote of the Week: Lawrence Auster, “The Path to National Suicide”
Lawrence Auster (1949-2013). American traditionalist essayist and commentator. “As we all know by now, racism, like witchcraft, is a difficult accusation to defend oneself against. The reason is that...
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Quote of the Week: Jean-Pierre Changeux, “What Makes Us Think?”
Jean-Pierre Changeux “On the other hand, what is true for language is also true, by implication, for a particular system of cultural representations, of legal and ethical rules. If, on his arrival in...
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Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Democracy and Leadership”
Irving Babbitt (b. 1865, d. 1933) Academic, literary critic and founder of “New Humanism”. “The remedy for such a failure of the man at the top to Curb his desires does not lie, as the agitator would...
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Quote of the Week: George Nash, “The Conservative Intellectual Movement in...
“For radical libertarianism (or anarchism, or radical capitalism – the names seemed interchangeable) drew most of its support not from established right-wing intellectuals but from college students –...
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Quote of the Week: Justin Raimondo, “Reclaiming the American Right”
“In the post-Cold War world, libertarians and authentic conservatives are rediscovering their common Old Right heritage not in order to satisfy some purely scholarly impulse, but out of political...
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Quote of the Week: Adam L. Tate (on Nathaniel Tucker), “Conservatism and...
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784 – 1851) US author, judge, legal scholar and Southern political essayist. “Moral behavior, a central component of society, rested on the strength of the will. Tucker...
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Quote of the Week: Eugene Genovese, “The Southern Tradition”
Eugene Genovese (1930-2012) Marxist historian of the US Southern heritage and tradition. “But most conservatives have distrusted ideological crusades, especially those which remind them of Lincoln,...
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Quote of the Week: Robert Lewis Dabney, “Discussions”
“These attempts to do the impossible illustrate the most absurd enterprise of all: the attempt of our modern materialistic infidels to abolish religion. The Commune shouted, ‘Down with property and...
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Quote of the Week: Thomas Carlyle, “The Latter Day Pamphlets”
“The Universe itself is a Monarchy and Heirarchy [sic]; large liberty of ‘voting’ there, all manner of choice, utmost free-will, but with conditions inexorable and immeasurable annexed to every...
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Quote of the Week: Kenneth Minogue, “The Servile Mind”
“Political correctness is not merely the imposition of rules of sensitivity on us; it is also the demand that incorrect thoughts expressing the forbidden attitudes must be stigmatized and abolished....
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Quote of the Week: René Guénon, “An Introduction to the Study of the Hindu...
René Guénon (1886-1951) “Europeans, since the days when they began to believe in ‘progress’ and in ‘evolution’, that is to say since a little more than a century ago, profess to see a sign of...
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Quote of the Week: Edmund Burke, “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
“Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are...
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Quote of the Week: Richard Lebrun, “Joseph de Maistre: An Intellectual Militant”
“Much of the strength of a traditional society lies in the factor that its structure and values are unquestioned – indeed unquestionable. It is only when the status quo has been attacked and disrupted...
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Quote of the Week: Jean Starobinski, “Action and Reaction”
“Recall that in their use of force the tyrannies of the twentieth century all tried to pass themselves off as revolutions and that they sought, systematically or incidentally, to discredit their...
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Quote of the Week: Peter King, “Reaction: Against the Modern World”
“Their greatest asset is the very ability they have to eviscerate the modern world and to point to its follies and contradictions. They may be commenting on the sidelines, but their comments are...
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Quote of the Week: Arthur Versluis “Antimodernism”
“If the essence of modernism is progress, a belief that technological development means socioeconomic improvement, the heart of antimodernism is a realization that ‘progress’ has an underbelly – that...
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Quote of the Week: Robin Waterfield, “René Guénon and the Future of the West”
“Tradition was essentially the body of knowledge and self understanding which is common to all men in all ages and nationalities. Its expression and clarification forms the basis of all traditional...
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Quote of the Week: Thomas Molnar, “The Counter-Revolution”
“The ideological energy this doctrine was able to generate was immense, it was Christian energy redirected towards purely secular and utopian ends. First of all, it satisfied the individual’s appetite...
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Quote of the Week (Special March ’16 Mardi Gras Edition): Roz Ward, “The Role...
Roz Ward: Coordinator, Safe Schools Coalition Victoria; Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University; Member of Socialist Alternative, Melbourne; Contributor and...
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