thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb This looks bad: New York Times radio station fires announcer over off-air remark. Gregg Whiteside had worked for WQXR 25 years and was their main classical music announcer. He made a comment (reportedly antisemitic) in a private conversation with a colleague and friend. Someone overheard the comment and reported it, and they fired him … More ...
The ever-useful Keith Windshuttle has collected a remarkable collection of stupid, wrong-headed, and sometimes downright evil responses from intellectuals to September 11. To my mind the most outrageous case he recounts (pointed out by PC Watch) is the following:
… More ...There were some academics who, in the heat of the moment, overlooked the prevailing politically correct
The march of equal opportunity: Firms plan gay audit to avoid discrimination claims. Some big English companies are rushing to find how which employees are homosexual before laws go into effect that could expose them to huge liabilities if it they are found to have discriminated.
The problem, of course, is that employers can’t … More ...
List-keepers are one thing that makes Freerepublic sometimes useful. Here, for example, is a list of links relating to the homosexual agenda. It should always be possible to find the most recent version of the list through “scripter,” the member who maintains it.
The Bush adminstration has warned colleges about campus speech codes, and David Limbaugh says “hurrah!”
What ever happened to the conservative ideal of self-governing institutions? The speech codes I know about are bad, but they wouldn’t be such a problem if the civil rights laws hadn’t imposed affirmative action and so forced a regime of … More ...
The International Organizations Research Group, the new research arm of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), has released its first report, The United Nations Children’s Fund: Women or Children First? (available in full in *.pdf).
Unfortunately, it’s feminists and not women or children who come first at UNICEF today. … More ...
Human relations are particular. I form connections to X, Y and Z based on their (and my) goals, qualities and situations. Such things vary endlessly, so human relations vary endlessly as well, in ways that can’t be controlled or even defined in any comprehensive way.
Liberals believe in nondiscrimination and inclusion. Nondiscrimination and inclusion forbid … More ...
There are some good comments on daycare at the Touchstone magazine blog that were touched off by a Rich Lowry comment on a new book. It’s an issue that should get more attention. The goal of modern public life is the abolition of the social function of every social institution other than bureaucracy and the … More ...
This Salon article, by a young Episcopal priestess educated at Yale Divinity School, helps fill in the background to the Gene Robinson affair: So A Priest Walks Into A Bar. She’s coy and she tries to be cute, but she presents an attitude rather clearly:
… More ...But of course these men don’t want to
Sam Francis has a good review of Paul Gottfried’s Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt, a sequel to his After Liberalism. Or at least it seems good to me. I haven’t read the book, but I’ve read some of Gottfried’s other writings on the subject, and have some idea of what his views … More ...