Away for a few days
I don’t expect to have reliable web access for the next few days (probably until Tuesday) and so may not post at all. Remember, though, that any registered user can start a new forum topic!
James Kalb
Errata variorum
Keeping abreast of the times:
- It seems the ban on Vlaams Blok didn’t become final quite fast enough. The right-wing party came in second in the recent EU vote, beating the party of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt (who is most likely the next EU president). In the aftermath: the other parties are fussing about whether
Is liberalism the natural conclusion of Christianity?
I’ve argued that contemporary liberalism is the flowering and not the corruption of classical liberalism. Once people accept the primacy of freedom, the basic principle of classical liberalism, what we have now naturally follows.
How far can that line of thought be taken? Liberalism, with its emphasis on the freedom and dignity of the individual, … More ...
New poll!
Do vote, and remember that old polls are still available (see site links above).
Flogging a dead multiculture
A review of Diane Ravitch’s The Language Police in The New Pantagruel brings out the nature of “celebrating diversity” in school textbooks: since almost anything one might assert, suggest or mention would be more favorable to one group or culture than another, the only things that can be asserted, suggested or mentioned are things like … More ...
What is reason?
We live in a time in which an abstract and basic question like that is relevant to practical political life. Judges today, for example, feel free to overthrow the established definition of marriage on the grounds that the universal understanding of a fundamental social institution is simply irrational. What is accepted as “reasonable” has evidently … More ...
Bias no myth
Liberal media bias is obvious to most people but usually invisible to liberals. The media bias basics assembled by the Media Research Center includes surveys and whatnot and are worth bookmarking in case the point comes up.
The soul of man under capitalism
This discussion by Ludwig von Mises of capitalism, happiness, and beauty has something of the “one simple principle correctly resolves everything” quality that tends to disfigures libertarian thought, so it’s no credit to the Mises Institute that they’ve chosen to give it special prominence.
The issue is artistic life under “capitalism,” by which I suppose … More ...
New deal for the Old Mass?
A comment by Cardinal Hoyos in a recent interview has led to renewed speculation that the Vatican may do something decisive to make the Traditional Latin Mass more freely available. According to His Eminence:
… More ...“After more than fifteen years of the [papal indult requesting that the TLM be made “widely and generously” available]—and also taking
More on the surrealist drama starring BB
A recent article at Front Page helps put Brigitte Bardot’s crime in context by touching on some of the non-hate speech Arab networks are now broadcasting in France with the consent of the French government. Recent contributions to the richness of French multiculturalism include a dramatization of Jews using the blood of a ritually slaughtered … More ...