2015 Symposium – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs On Baudelairean Traditionalism I The Prelude Edwin Dyga invites a response to the question, Whither Conservatism – or rather “Quo Vadis, Conservatism,” a nicely history-minded verbal … Continue reading
2015 Symposium – Luke Torrisi
Don’t Mention the War! Conservatives’ Forgotten Role The Paleoconservative or Traditionalist is a lonely soul.1 They often feel displaced, going about their business in a dissociative state. They are grateful … Continue reading
2015 Symposium – Morgan Qasabian (Part 3)
Conservative Prospects in the Second Age of Malcolm Part Three VI The need for a social movement cannot be merely posited; its need has to be found out through weighing … Continue reading
What’s Good for the Goose, Should be Good for the Gander
This week’s featured poster can be said to be part of an informal series of counter-counter-cultural “campus agitprop,” in which students who are defamed, libeled and otherwise targeted by so-called “progressive” … Continue reading
Rally Protesting Forced Mass Third-World Immigration, Warsaw Poland
It appears that the block of Central European nations – Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland – steadfastly refuses to buckle under the pressure of its Western ‘partners’, particularly their … Continue reading
One Flag Goes Up, Another Goes Down
The last several weeks have been difficult, particularly for our American cousins, and especially those who have been witnessing the escalating attack on their traditional values and cultural icons. A certain … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Alisdair MacIntyre, “After Virtue”
“It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between … Continue reading
“Straight Pride” at Youngstown State University, Ohio
Student activists at Youngstown State University have lead by example, engaging in a counter-agitprop campaign against the obsessive sex-fetishists on campus. Predictably, the posters (as featured above) didn’t last long; but … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Till Kinzel, Introduction, “Scholia to an Implicit Text”
“Man is an animal that cannot find restfulness in this life, since he cannot just live in a state of self-oblivion within the passing of time. In every instant, Gómez-Dávila … Continue reading
Better Dead Than Red
SydneyTrads is the internet portal and communication page of the Sydney Traditionalist Forum: an association of young professionals who form part of the Australian independent right (also known as “dissident right” … Continue reading
Aristokratia Volume 3: Coming Soon
We have been informed that the third volume of Aristokratia journal (Manticore Press) has been sent to the printers and will shortly be available for purchase. Friends and members of … Continue reading
Reactionaries Read: “The Latter-Day Pamphlets” (1850)
“Reactionaries read The Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850) because it”s never too late to get it right.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “Your ship cannot double Cape Horn by its excellent … Continue reading
Reactionaries Believe in: Classical International Law
“Reactionaries believe in classical international law because it’s none of our damn business.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “All the Millenniums I ever heard of heretofore were … Continue reading
Reactionaries save it for Queen Isabella of Spain
“Reactionaries save it for Queen Isabella of Spain, uncompromising visionary sovereign.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “The Commander over Men; he to whose will our wills are … Continue reading
Reactionaries Don’t Vote…
“Reactionaries don’t vote for anyone, in any election, because the true King isn’t on the ballot.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “Find in any country the Ablest … Continue reading
Reactionaries Demand: That The Revolution Stop
“Reactionaries demand that the revolution stop because the Guillotine has done enough.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “That a good man be ‘free’, be permitted to unfold himself … Continue reading
Reactionaries Want: A Functioning Government
“Reactionaries want a functioning government.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “How decipher, with best fidelity, the eternal regulation of the Universe? All the world answers me, ‘Count … Continue reading
Reactionaries Know: Political “Progress” is a Myth
“Reactionaries know political ‘progress’ is a myth: technological advances hide societal decay. ” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “Various forces have attempted to set up a defense against … Continue reading
Reactionaries Believe in: Classical International Law
“Reactionaries believe in classical international law because it’s none of our damn business.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “All the Millenniums I ever heard of heretofore were … Continue reading
Reactionaries Demand: That The Reign of Terror Stop
“Reactionaries demand that the reign of terror stop because the Guillotine has done enough.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “That a good man be ‘free’, be permitted … Continue reading
Reactionaries Suggest: We Should All Just Grow Up.
“Reactionaries suggest we should all just grow up.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “Mighty racial tides flow from the most elemental of vital urges: self-expansion and self-preservation. … Continue reading
Reactionaries Know: Political “Progress” is a Myth
“Reactionaries know political ‘progress’ is a myth: technological advances hide societal decay.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “The various aspect of the contemporary social and political chaos … Continue reading
Reactionaries Listen to: The Brandenburg Concertos
“Reactionaries listen to the Brandenburg Concertos, because frankly, we’re better than that.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “What is Democracy; this huge inevitable Product of the Destinies? … Continue reading
Reactionaries Believe in: Values Beyond the Economic
“Reactionaries believe in values beyond the economic: political, spiritual, heroic, organic.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view … Continue reading
Reactionaries Want: A Functioning Government
“Reactionaries want a functioning government.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “How decipher, with best fidelity, the eternal regulation of the Universe? All the world answers me, ‘Count … Continue reading
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
“When I was a Revolutionary Marxist, we were all in favour of as much immigration as possible. It wasn’t because we liked immigrants, but because we didn’t like Britain. … … Continue reading
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
“France has given in. Now there’s no turning back. The rest of the world will learn what has happened. Some will revel in our fall, some will suffer along with … Continue reading
Reactionaries can Admit: Different People are Different
“Reactionaries can admit different people are different and thrive in different systems.” (Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries; Radish Magazine) “A constitution which is made for all nations is made … 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: John Gray, “Black Mass”
“In America the Right has splintered between neo-conservative ideologues and paleo-conservative nativists. The common factor in these disparate currents is that conservatism has ceased to be a coherent political project. The links … 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
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part IV: Natural Rights
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.” — Robert Frost One of the most confusing developments of the late … Continue reading
