thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb The ACLU wins some and loses some. They sometimes have trouble getting monuments to the Ten Commandments out of public parks, but have managed to suppress “With God, all things are possible” as the Ohio state motto.
The distinction is that the monuments can be viewed as historical rather than religious. The Ten Commandments, like … More ...
The Monmouth County (New Jersey) Prosecutor’s Office is apparently awash in money, enough to let them spend $400,000 on a 30-second TV spot featuring Hitler, burning crosses, lynchings and whatnot, with a voiceover announcing “no one is immune” and encouraging listeneners to report bias incidents to a hotline. The reason: a “a string of racist … More ...
Antihumanism has made another convert. John Gray of the London School of Economics, formerly a classical liberal and what not else, is coming out with a new book, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. The new book is said to be “a demolition of two and a half thousand years of Western … More ...
Times are tough all over: the U. S. bishops’ board which is supposed to monitor clerical sex abuse includes some dodgy characters, and the Anglican church continues its long day’s journey down the tubes with an attack by a senior Anglican bishop on the masculinity of God. The latter incident can also be … More ...
Legal trivia: in Florida you can get 5 years for notorizing your own signature. Since it’s not clear why notorizing should matter, the law doesn’t seem to be enforced much except in special cases like anti-gay rights petitions. So in Miami two people involved in a campaign to overturn a local gay-rights ordinance … More ...
The U.N. Commission on Human Rights is still the conscience of the world: U.N. report says racism on the rise worldwide. “The current international context should not cause [combatting racism and intolerance] to be lost from view, since they affect millions of people who are daily subjected to the horrors of discriminatory treatment.” The … More ...
While visiting in-laws in suburban Columbus I looked at some of the publications they read and was struck by the continuing mainstreaming of cultural radicalism. The Columbus Dispatch ran an article on reparations in their Sunday supplement by “Harvard legal expert” Charles Ogletree, and devoted half their front page Monday to an enormous photograph … More ...
Another plot to destroy Bolognese fresco of Mohamet being cast into Hell, the second one in two months. This plot involved not only the standard four Arabs aged between 20 and 30 but also an Italian art historian, aged 55, who had sponsored the Arabs for work permits. Italian radicalism lives, I suppose.
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There’s something very odd about this: ‘Cruel’ mouse music study blasted. Several of the mice involved in a Cambridge University study of the effects of amphetamines and loud music suffered brain damage and died, it seems, resulting in outrage from activists and disciplinary action by the Home Office.
How long will it be before … More ...
In the current Telos Paul Gottfried has a “Reply to James Kalb” (not on line) in which he discusses several pieces about liberalism I’ve had in Modern Age and Telos itself. Here’s a draft reply to his reply. If anyone’s interested enough to read and comment it would be much appreciated. I think the piece … More ...