Quote of the Week: Stark Young, “I’ll Take My Stand”
“For such of us as wish to sustain certain elements out of the Southern life, our backs must be against the wall. The diverse and most manifest excellences, such as … Continue reading
Tradition and Reaction in Quadrant
Readers of SydneyTrads will be interested to note the publication of Luke Torrisi’s “Tradition and Reaction in Conservative Politics” which appears in the January-February issue of Quadrant magazine.1 Torrisi is the host of Radio … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Anthony Ludovici, “A Defence of Conservatism”
“The opposition of a great conservative like the Seventh Earl of Shaftsbury to the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867, and the Ballot Act of 1872, was … not due … Continue reading
Sydney Traditionalists Introduce Sen. Bernardi at Quadrant Dinner
Senator Cory Bernardi, author of The Conservative Revolution and outspoken critic of modern liberal politics in Australia and abroad, was the guest speaker at the April Quadrant Dinner. The Convenor of the Sydney … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Cory Bernardi, “The Conservative Revolution”
“The principles which have guided mankind for centuries provide a very clear map of the path we should take. In fact, they should be entirely uncontroversial for the religious and … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Hugh Cecil, “Conservatism”
“The championship of religion is therefore the most important of the functions of Conservatism. It is the keystone of the arch upon which the whole fabric rests. As long as … Continue reading
First “Shots Fired” in Australia’s Culture War, 2014
Cory Bernardi wrote a book late last year titled The Conservative Revolution (Connor Court, 2013). To most thinking Conservatives the more controversial element of the book would have been its … Continue reading
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part I: Cultural Marxism
The Right-Wing Slogan of the Year for 2013 was Smash Cultural Marxism (followed shortly by Anti-Racist is a Code Word for Anti-White). It’s unclear if anyone can account for the … Continue reading
A Question for “Conservatives”
It was drawn to my attention that this week’s episode of the ABC programme Q & A began with a rather “strong question”.1 Normally I regard this programme as a form … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Natural conservatism values and aims to protect the tried and true; both together, because the tried alone may have little in its favor and much against it and because the true … Continue reading
Fourth Documentary Screening with Honoured Guest, Sen. Cory Bernardi, 8 April 2013
Last month, on Monday 8 April 2013, the Sydney Traditionalist Forum hosted its fourth documentary screening, the first which was attended by an honoured guest: Senator Cory Bernardi of South … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “Green Philosophy”
“Even if we thought, as Peter Singer and his followers seem to think, that there is a class of uniquely reasonable people who will be both adept at utilitarian reasoning … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Quintin Hogg, “The Case for Conservatism”
“The profit motive is accepted and is used as the normal driving force, but it is not permitted to dominate, for if it does we shall do violence to the … Continue reading
T. S. Eliot and Reactionary Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century
T. S. Eliot is best known as the greatest poet of the twentieth century. Less known, at least in the popular imagination, is his substantial contribution to the rich legacy … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Some liberals start with a contract that rational and self-interested agents would supposedly arrive at in a hypothetical situation, and evaluate political arrangements on the basis of how closely they … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Pickthorn
“A Conservative is a man who believes that in politics the onus of proof is on the proposer of change … Marks of the Conservative temperament are devotion to place, … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Michael Oakeshott, “Rationalism in Politics”
“From all this the man of conservative temperament draws some appropriate conclusions. First, innovation entails certain loss and possible gain, therefore, the onus of proof, to show that the proposed … Continue reading
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 well as conscience. Political problems, … Continue reading
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 find the right political arrangements … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Meaning of Conservatism”
“It is a limp definition of conservatism to describe it as the desire to conserve; for although there is in every man and woman some impulse to conserve that which … Continue reading
