thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb It’s hard at this distance to figure out just who did what and how bad it was, but that’s the point: Albanian terrorists armed by the West to fight in Kosovo are destroying Macedonia. We bombed Serbia for 78 days and nights because we were outraged by a civil war in which more than … More ...
What is the proper place for freedom? Certainly the liberal view that freedom is a self-contained final standard for politics is wrong, since freedom is always freedom to do or be something. As such it must be understood by reference to some further good. Freedom is primarily freedom to acquire or achieve something good. … More ...
Is it ever anything but? Diversity top priority for new University of New Hampshire leader. The current numbers more or less reflect the racial composition of New Hampshire, but that’s just not good enough. After all, ”A world class education requires a diverse educational community” and thus social engineering and thought control. Meanwhile, Seattle … More ...
It’s not just multinational corporations and “human rights”, everybody’s responsible for everything. The Ohio Supreme Court has approved the Cincinnati lawsuit against handgun manufacturers, so gun manufacturers are responsible for street crime. The AMA, among other enterprises that are making social conditions more and more a medical responsibility, is getting into the anti-bullying … More ...
At least some types of particularity can maintain themselves these days, but I’m not sure what it shows: Despite the sameness of U.S. media, regional dialects refuse to blend.
Why is something as radical as inclusiveness ideology normal, so that if you disagree with it you’re an irrational extremist? Here are some possibilities:
Sir David Calvert-Smith, UK director of public prosecutions, says most Britons are guilty of racism. He’s right, of course. Once you buy into antiracism and the rest of it the need to extirpate all traces of non-bureaucratic human relatedness becomes a sort of jihad—an infinite battle for the goal that exceeds all others. … More ...
British feminists call for continued Western occupation of Afghanistan, and Nicholas Kristof takes time out from abusing anyone with doubts about CEDAW to speak of “the half of the globe where to be female is to be persecuted until, often, death.” Is there a certain pattern here?
Meanwhile, closer to home, all decent people … More ...
The campaign to make international capital an engine of “human rights” continues: Apartheid suit to target U.S. and German firms (if the former South African government had been unable to borrow money it wouldn’t have lasted as long), and Myanmar Human Rights Abuse Case Against US Oil Giant to Go Ahead (UNOCAL knew the Burmese … More ...
Signs that things are the same everywhere: Nude Performance Artist Shocks Conservative Chile and Japanese Activists Hail Ruling on Transgender Sacking. The news reports can’t be relied upon, of course, but it appears there is no serious, sustained and effective opposition to such things anywhere. The ubiquity of cultural radicalism suggests that its sources … More ...