Current Affairs
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It's a commonly heard question among college and university faculty. Well, here's one answer. I do find it pretty amusing that it's a "diversity coordinator."
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Dick Cheney's daughters are feuding because one of them is a lesbian who has a "wife," and the other believes marriage requires two people of opposite sexes. The former says the latter is on the wrong side of history. It's a charge one hears pretty frequently. I can imagine few things less likely to make…
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The more I think about the conclusion of that "Eleven Nations" piece (see previous post), the more it bothers me. What makes it so troubling is that it envisions no other outcome to the national conflict than having one side crush the other. This reveals something about the thinking of contemporary liberals. I doubt you…
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This has been getting some attention for several days now: a sort of cultural map of the U.S. based on the varying cultures of origin of current inhabitants. The first thing I noticed is that it conforms to what I was saying in a discussion with Art Deco a few weeks ago about the culture…
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That’s the title of this piece by Charles Cooke at National Review Online. While I sympathize with at least some of the Tea Party’s complaints and proposals, I also have my disagreements with it, and in general find its rhetoric simplistic if not entirely wrong. I don’t believe, for instance, that excessive taxation is, in…
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I think I'll let this be my last post on this book for now. It deserves a lengthy and well-considered review, but for various reasons I don't feel up to that. So I'll just point you to a series of essays at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute which comprise a pretty good discussion of the book. …
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From an Obama voter who just found out how much her health insurance premium is going up: “Of course, I want people to have health care,” Vinson said. “I just didn’t realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.” More from Neoneocon. Update: On second thought, I have to…
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In a chapter called "Blind Alleys," Kalb discusses various responses to liberalism. I'll be posting a bit from each of them. Here is what he calls "simple conservatism." Simple procedural conservatism is a view for moderate worldly men attached to what is established but willing to accomodate new developments that seem sensible or inevitable. It…
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Discovered by one of his fellow atheists: Can there be any residual doubt, after this latest imbecility, that Richard Dawkins is in the service of the global cabal of faiths henceforth to be known as Big Religa? In other atheistical news: Some atheists are starting a "church", which strikes me as very odd and yet…
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My wife's typically brief and accurate take: "He's sort of loosey-goosey when he talks, isn't he?" Someone else, whom I'll refrain from identifying but who can speak up if he or she sees this and wishes to: "We've got Paul VI again." It was a brief conversation, but what I took the Paul VI comparison…
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