thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb Archbishop Martino’s comments on “just war,” to the effect that Catholic teaching on the subject may be going the way of the teaching on the death penalty—something that may be acceptable in principle but never today in fact because “modern society has enough means [of resolving conflicts] so that we need not have recourse … More ...
Illinois Democrats boost election results by registering sex offenders.
Thomas Sowell makes some useful points regarding the feminist claim that women’s changing economic position is explained by male repression. He had earlier made similar points in connection with blacks. The line of thought certainly seems plausible—while the free market isn’t perfect, it’s not adapted for arbitrary repression in any normal sense.
A series of stories from England displays the features of the emerging transnational order:
The world’s in a bad way, but if we want to turn things around things really aren’t so complicated:
As many have observed, liberalism creates a sort of inverted reality in which everything is the opposite of what is claimed:
The rock-ribbed Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire is likely to elect the first openly homosexual bishop in the Anglican communion, a man who left his wife and children to move in with the male lover with whom he would presumably share the bishop’s residence.
A lot could be said about the situation. I’ll stand back … More ...
We keep hearing about Saddam’s Baathist party, with never any explanation what it is or what they believe. This may help fill the gap: Saddam’s Brain. It seems it’s basically an Arab version of Naziism, with a mystical vision of race, violence, and purity. It has some Leninist elements as well, like the parallel … More ...
How seriously should anyone take complaints that American society is “totalitarian”? After all, people here can mostly say and do what they want. Elections are free, the press uncensored, the police and courts comparatively honest and law-abiding, person and property generally secure. Education, religion and culture are as independent of outside control as … More ...
Maybe “gynocide” wasn’t so totally gynocidal: The victims of the witch hunt history would rather forget. Of the 60,000 or so persons executed for witchcraft in Europe between 1450 and 1750, perhaps 12-20,000 were men. In some regions, such as Burgundy, Normandy and Iceland, men were a majority of those accused. Those aren’t facts … More ...