🔊 The importance of physical publication cannot be stressed enough. There is a reason this is happening right now across the globe, and anyone who considers themsleves an intellectual dissident of any type should take note.

I recall some years ago, there was a snarky phrase used by the editors and contributors to the vDare website referring to print material as "dead tree format", or something along those lines. The condescending attitude to those who still valued print was palpaple.

So... where are they now? Lawfare has essentially nuked thier operations and the website is non-existent in any user friendly way. Woopsie!

Thankfully, under some pressure from readership, they did put out a paper quarterly, which is now defunct. But between that and the online material, only the "dead tree" remains alive. The irony...

True, print publication has an infinitesimally smaller reach and exposure. But it is virtually impossible to censor unless of course the nerds behind shadow banning algorythms plan to get off thier silicon valley beanbags, put on thier walking shoes, knock on the doors of every subscriber and retrieve problematic material directly. The Soviets tried this. It didn't work. But the technocratic defenders of "freedumb and democracy" will achieve it in cyberspace at the hit of a button.

You all know this, of course. But it's worth repeating: traditional print media may be a small shop, but it will never die. And it will never die because it is essential, and real.

The O&R was intended from the outset to be a print only journal of substance. Only articles and essays that have a long shelf-life will feature there. Perhaps at some point in the future an online version (let us call it, "fleeting ephemeral format") of each contribution will be uploaded. But we believe that our readers are serious people, and serous people make an effort.

There are a number of dissident publishers out there right now. The space is ripe for the proliferation of books and periodicals in the "old school" tradition. This will be the major backbone of intellectual resistance to the stale status quo.

You can participate in this movement. Get real. Buy a book or journal. They (we all) need your help, and the cause is a just one.

🔗 Sidestream Press

🔊 Our friends at The National Observer interview NSW Libertarian Party MP John Ruddick, commencing with a quote from an essay in the O&R about the history of past peleoconservative and libertarian cooperation. Be sure to listen in:

🔗 https://news.1rj.ru/str/JohnLawson_TNO/1699

🔊 Only days after we published the above, we read from The Atlantic that the project of digitising the world's out of print books for free public availability has been blocked through administrative and court shenanigans.

Moral of the story: buy old books. Buy them in print. Build a library. All reactionaries and dissidents should pride themsleves on this effort.

Ironically, that article is paywalled, however an archived version is available here:

🔗 https://archive.is/SM6KV

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👉🏻 A notorious federal law, which concerns so-called "misinformation and disinformation", and which will target "opinions, claims, commentary" that the governing power does not like, has passed the Lower House and will now be sent to the Senate for review.

👉🏻There are only four Senators who have not yet declared thier position with respect to this law. To ensure the law's defeat, only two of them are requited to vote against it.

👉🏻 Accordingly, readers are encouraged to send an urgent message to these Senators, expressing your concerns, and encouraging them to vote "No" to the Digital ID.

Contact details follow:

💻 senator.lambie@aph.gov.au
☎️ (03) 6431 3112

💻 senator.payman@aph.gov.au
☎️ (08) 6245 3322

💻 senator.thorpe@aph.gov.au
☎️ (03) 9070 1950

💻 senator.van@aph.gov.au
☎️ (03) 9008 4688

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The artist is a friend of ours and his exhibition will be opening today at 3pm to 6pm at Paddington's Maunsell Wickes Gallery. If you're in a Sydney and have no set plans for the day, we hope to see you there!

🔊 RJ Stove's book, Fallen Monarchies, an extract of which was published in our inaugural issue, will be launched at the NSW State Library on 27 November, at 6pm. Significant discount available for those who buy a copy. Author will be available to sign each purchase. More information on: Sidestream.Press

👉🏻 Yes, former NSW State Premier Bob Carr will be the guest speaker, and yes this is a strictly RSVP event. Obviously.

⚠️ Seats are limited. Those wishing to attend are advised to contact the organiser (details in poster in link above) ASAP.

📢 O&R No 3 has arrived from the printers and will soon be available for purchase on the publisher's website here (watch this space).

Reminder:

Limited stock of back issues is still available.

📚 No 1 - only 9 copies left.
📚 No 2 - only 19 copies left.

Consume Product while you can!

🔗 Sidestream Press

📢 Latest issue of the Observer & Review is now available at Sidestream Press:

Inside:

👉🏻 R. J. Stove, "American Academy's Khrushchev Moment"

👉🏻 Ted Sadler, "Suicide of the West: Towards a Universal Homogenous Superstate"

👉🏻 Luke Torrisi, "Immortality: Experience and Symbol"

👉🏻 Jonathan Cole, "Truth, Virtue and Liberty: Conservatism’s Pricean Turn"

Books reviewed:

📚 T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
📚 Alan James, New Britania: the Rise and Decline of Anglo-Australia
📚 Alasdair Cannon, Holding Patterns
📚 Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: is There No Alternative
📚 Mike Ma, Harassment Architecture

⚠️ Limited stock ⚠️

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We are always very pleased to get feedback from our readers - but we are even more pleased when a certain book review published in our pages encourages the reader to go and buy the book itself.

When we hear stories like this, it makes the whole project all the more worthwhile. We should be encouraging a culture of reading, especially literature that is either intentionally forgotten or intentionally ignored.

We are living in an age of great cultural vandalism. All organised groups within the structures of state are seemingly committed to this self destructive pathology. It really is up to people like us - and of course our readers like you - to revitalise what is relentlessly under attack in the arts and letters.

We thank those who have purchased a copy of the latest issue of O&R. Half the stock has sold out, but there is plenty more available for sale. A very limited number of previous issues are also available.

We're also very pleased to announce some of the institutional subscribers, who are listed on the publisher's page.

🌐 Sidestream Press

🔊 As there are only 2 copies left of No.1, we have had to slightly increase the price on this as it is now a "rare item".

However, it can be purchased as part of a back issues bundle for a much reduced price - there are 3 such bundles left.

More info at Sidestream Press.

Sidestream Press and the Observer & Review wish all of our readers and followers a Holy Christmas and a warm start to the New Year in 2025.

Christ is Born!

Keep reading old and forbidden books, and keep building those family libraries in the coming year!

👉🏻 On this Happy Feast of Saint Sylvester, we wish all of our readers a warm and prosperous start to 2025! 🎉

👉🏻 Hope you've all started the year in high spirits!

Remember, good habits start today:

📖 Buy a book or two from a dissident publisher, or open up that one you've had gathering dust on the shelf.

👉🏻 Do not squander your time in 2025. Those who hate us depend on our enervation. Prove them wrong.

Thank you to those who made orders over this past week. They will be processed and mailed to readers over the Australia Day long weekend.

Issue No. 4 will soon be sent to the printers. This will be the thickest issue so far, high level content on myth, economics, the need for an Anglo-Celtic advocacy agency, and an in depth history of the Old Right. It will also include a great sampling of literature reviewed: from Old Heads and new strategists.

⚠️ Dispatch Admin note:

Some people are getting an automatic email that their purchases have been delivered while nothing has in fact arrived.

This is an automatic email that is sometimes sent, even though we specifically ask the bot not to send it.

If you've recieved this pesky email and are worried your order has been "lost" in the post, rest assured it hasn't. All recent orders were posted today.

Local purchasers should expect their deliveries to arrive by the end of this coming week. International purchasers, within a three weeks.

Apologies for the confusion. We're looking into how to nuke this auto email.

🎉 Happy Australia Day 🎉

👉🏻 Followers may be interested to note the excellent discussion by Mark Richardson in OzConservative, regarding the mechanistic view of man, its impact on relations between the sexes, and the relevant this has on "national question". This discussion draws on an essay published in the second issue of our journal. Copies are still available for purchase at the publisher's website.

⚠️ Forthcoming to the O&R

Number 4 of our journal has been sent to the printers and will soon be available for pre-order soon. In this issue:

👉🏻 A History of the True Right
👉🏻 How to Read Strauss
👉🏻 The need for an Anglo Celtic Advocacy Agency
👉🏻 Two views on Economics and the Right

📚 Books reviewed: work by TS Eliot, Joshua Hren, Paul Gottfried, Balasz Orban.

✒️ Also included: readers correspondence, and outgoing correspondence from the publisher to the Australian Senate.

🔗 Link with full details will follow soon.