2004 – Page 8 – Turnabout

Big brother is watching you

April 16, 2024October 7, 2004 by kjvail

4 related articles from worldnetdaily.com:

Lawmakers consider
‘smart’ driver’s license
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40796

Feds plan to track every car
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40795

Senate wants massive database dragnet
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,65242,00.html

Computer chips used to keep tabs on kids

Now I’ve seen proposals to place similar devices in the elderly (for their safety of course) and in convicted criminal offenders released on … More ...

Here are some of the fruits of the movement for full inclusiveness in religion, and more generally of the search for this-worldly transcendence: a mini-conference on homosexual sado-masochistic religion at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, a leading scholarly organization (search for the word “gay” on the linked page), and a respectful … More ...

What sense does this God stuff make?

October 5, 2004 by James Kalb

One of the problems people have with religion today is that they don’t know what to make of the word “God.”

In a sense they’re right to be puzzled. Our concept of God is our concept of the most basic thing there is. It’s a concept of something beyond all concepts. That’s why Aquinas says … More ...

Good news in the news

April 16, 2024October 4, 2004 by Francisco Franco

It seems there’s mostly bad news for us most of the time; but there is actually some good news in the news:

Khmer Rouge tribunal approved Cambodia is planning a “UN-backed tribunal to put leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime on trial.” I’ve always thought that Pol Pot is the greatest evil, the greatest … More ...

How autonomy becomes tyranny

September 22, 2004 by James Kalb

A first-rate summary of why making individual autonomy the ultimate political standard doesn’t work: The Tyranny of Liberalism And Its Evil Root: Individual Autonomy as the End of the State. Sample quote:

“[N]o polity could be grounded in an ideology, which is nothing more than an aspect of a cultural inheritance about which one

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Vdare.com now has a blog.

April 16, 2024September 18, 2004 by Fred Scrooby

Vdare.com has a blog, born four days ago and already first-rate. I predict it’ll be a major force helping to resist the interests who are pushing excessive incompatible immigration on us against our will.

Book notes: The Long Truce

September 18, 2004 by James Kalb

I just finished reading The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit, by A. J. Conyers. It’s a book-length treatment of a constant theme here at Turnabout, that “tolerance” as a principle—the demand that standards other than money, power and the like be treated as purely personal commitments … More ...

Conservative Sexuality Views Under-represented

April 16, 2024September 17, 2004 by Anonymous

It seems there are pleanty of people speaking out about their sexuality. However, there seems to be an uneven representation of sexual morality views on some popular websites. For example, SexEditorials.com has a lack of moderate and conservative views on sexuality even though they allow all points of view on their site. I wish I … More ...

Book notes: Ride the Tiger

September 16, 2004 by James Kalb

Not a book everyone would find useful or interesting, but I’m getting something out of it: Ride the Tiger, by Julius Evola.

The author calls the book “a survival manual for the aristocrats of the soul,” although in concrete fact I’m not sure there is such a thing in his sense. Still, it’s … More ...

Perfecting the machine

September 16, 2004 by James Kalb

The deconstruction of race, gender and whatnot rolls on:

Not surprisingly, a conference on race agrees it’s a social construct, and also not surprisingly the conclusion is that everybody—especially Americans, who are apparently more racist than other people—has to be re-educated. The scholars are meeting to figure out how to spend $4 million from

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Did you get rid of all of your old articles? I loved "What is traditionalism?"