Current Affairs
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Presumably you've heard about this. Conservatives have been having trouble deciding whether they're more amused or appalled by it. I'm very much in agreement with Ross Douthat's view. A lot of people have attacked it, quite correctly, for its weird vision of the heroine Julia as a sort of social atom whose chief relationship is…
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I've just been browsing in the most recent issue of The New Criterion, which is a memorial issue for Hilton Kramer, the magazine's founder, who died recently. During the time I've been reading TNC–a little over ten years–Kramer hasn't appeared very often in its pages, and so I really don't know that much about him,…
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Dialogue and Motive A few days ago in a comment thread Paul linked to this interesting report on a study which claims to find that conservatives understand the views of liberals better than liberals understand the views of conservatives. I take Studies of this sort in general with a pretty big dose of skepticism—after all,…
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I'm not calling this Weekend Music because I'm not sure I want to commit myself to doing that post every week. So let's just call it weekend music. I posted this on Facebook the other day as a recommendation apropos the racial tensions in this country. Not that anyone who would have seen it there…
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Ex-Pat said the other day that there was no hope for Blighty. Things like this make you think it's true. "…the reductio ad absurdum of government paying people to be roving human alarm clocks."
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Hmm, sounds a bit like the name of a rock band…. But no: Friday will be the first anniversary of the devastating (to put it mildly) tornadoes that hit northern Alabama last year. An old friend of mine, one of a number of people who came to Tuscaloosa for college in the late 1960s and…
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If you visited here within the past 4 or 5 hours, you saw a post linking to a story about the beating of a white man by a black mob who may have been further inflamed by the Trayvon Martin case. I took the post down because it served no real purpose other than to express my…
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My wife sent this to me a day or two ago with the note "Watch the video even if you don't read the article," and I would say the same. It's a blog post by Mark Shea containing a video in which a somewhat dim-seeming young English woman attempts to challenge a group of England-hating Muslim…
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…is not generally a dispositive argument, but sometimes it is. Or at any rate there's not much point in saying more. Not everything in that piece is dumb, but I think that's a fair judgment of the general way of thinking on display there.
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from Neo-neocon.
Light On Dark Water 