Globalism, Don Juan and the Perennial Philosophy
The perennial philosophy involves the notion that there are certain metaphysical truths that transcend any particular culture: that there is essentially just one wisdom tradition and it identifies a...
View ArticleWhy Exemptions only for the Religious?
“Manif pour Tous” – rally protesting the legalisation of same-sex marriage, in Europe’s most aggressively secular republic: France. The debate over whether or not to legalise same-sex “marriage” is...
View ArticleVincent d’Indy, le Wagnerisme, & Tradition
Vincent d’Indy (1851 – 1931), a close contemporary of Sir Edward Elgar (1857 – 1934), studied under César Franck (1822 – 1890) at the Paris Conservatory. On Franck’s death, d’Indy became the...
View Article2017 Symposium II – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Is Practicality Practical? Is practicality practical? The answer is, probably not, or at least that it is hard to tell, and that practicality, in any field, might only be practical – or for that...
View Article2017 Symposium II – Valdis Grinsteins
Ideas are for Action as the Bow is for the Arrow I had the honour of being with Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, founder of the Societies for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, during the...
View ArticlePoetry by Carl Hildebrand: “The Covenant of Baal”
¶ Give me your children ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶And your infants On the altar of my laud. Your sons my priested eunuchs And your girls my sterile harlots And you shall be my chosen race ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶And I the Lord thy God....
View ArticlePoetry by Carl Hildebrand: “Historia vera unionis non falsae”
¶ When Pope held forth to Emperor the orb That Caesar clasped in long-lost Rome benighted, It fell beneath the nations being born Trampled to shards—and we were not united. ¶ And when the doctors...
View ArticleSuicide of the West: Towards a Universal Homogeneous Super-State
Thomas Cole, “Destruction”, Oil on canvas (1836) 39 ½ × 63 ½ in. This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 23 November 2018 by Prof. Ted Sadler, as part of the...
View ArticlePast and Future Gulags
Vladimir Solovyov’s insightful The Crisis of Western Philosophy can enlighten us today as to the importance of re-telling history to educate subsequent generations. With its reference to Man’s...
View ArticleCan Great Poetry Survive the Post-revolutionary West?
This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 27 September 2019 by Prof. Barry Spurr, as part of the Forum’s “Quarterly Inquiry Series”. In a recent interview, Peter...
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