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2017 Symposium – Brett Stevens
Y3K Western identity never knew itself. Men of the West understood themselves as tribes and later nations, but never saw a need to unify as a civilization until they faced outsiders. Early attempts to...
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2017 Symposium – James Kalb
Identity and the Civilization of the West Identity has become a problem today. No one seems sure where it comes from, what it is for, or what difference it should make. The questions relate not just...
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2017 Symposium – M. W. Davis
Fogeyism: in Theory and Practice “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the...
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2017 Symposium – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Identity: The Future of a Paradox When Publius Virgilius Maro, more familiarly Virgil, accepted the commission from Augustus, formerly Gaius Octavius, to create an identity for the Roman people by...
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2017 Symposium – Valdis Grinsteins
Identity and the New Nationalism. Where is it going in Eastern Europe? I During the refugee crisis in 2015, it was clear that a huge difference existed in the immigration policies of Western and...
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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...
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Why 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...
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Vincent 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...
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2017 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...
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2017 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...
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Poetry 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....
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Poetry 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...
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Suicide 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...
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Past 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...
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Can 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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