PC kills
A good summary of the influence of political correctness on the events leading up to September 11: Stop frisking crippled nuns, by Mark Steyn.
James Kalb
Inclusiveness in Britain
It’s worthwhile looking at the details to see just how totalitarian “inclusiveness” is. Here’s an account of the specifics involved in the duty to promote race equality imposed in Britain by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.
All public agencies, including colleges and universities, professional bodies, libraries and museums, have to do whatever they do … More ...
It’s good news week!
Good news all over:
- From America: Army pulling female soldiers out of units likely to be engaged in combat.
- From Canada: B.C. set to disband Human Rights Commission. I can’t believe there will be more than minor adminstrative changes, but still …
- From Europe: Door to EU is ‘closing’. EU expansion to
“America” as a religion
Is turning America into a religion the original sin of modern American conservatism? As a pre-1968 schoolboy I was taught faith in America. It wasn’t altogether clear what that meant, but it’s what I was taught and it’s what the revolution of the ’60s attacked. Popular American conservatism and neoconservatism are still mostly a defense … More ...
Roberts on Hoppe and Vanhanen
The ever-useful Paul Craig Roberts on a couple of recent books, one by Rothbardian Hans-Hermann Hoppe on monarchy and one by a Finnish Darwinian on ethnic conflict as genetic nepotism writ large. Libertarians and Darwinians can be single-factor ideologues, but they’re not always at their worst and there’s a lot to be learned from … More ...
Campus and bishop–what relation?
An interesting issue: Catholic campuses head for showdown over episcopal certification for teaching Catholic theology. Most academics object, on the grounds that would make them subject to the judgment of someone other than colleagues (Catholic or otherwise), their school’s administration, accrediting agencies, professional associations, various civil rights and equal opportunity authorities, etc.
Presumably the bishops … More ...
Rising Hispanic populations in Southwest
Some numbers from the 2000 census on how things are going in the Southwest: In Texas, 31.2 percent said they speak a language at home that is not English, up from 25 percent in 1990. 6.4 percent of the state’s entire population entered the United States between 1990 and 2000. In Arizona the number … More ...
Houellebecq charged
The saga of multiculturalism in Europe continues: Michel Houellebecq charged with inciting racial hatred. The reporter’s a nitwit, but the facts seem reasonably clear: a leading French writer says Islam is “the most stupid of all religions,” so he has to answer in court to charges of “inciting racial hatred.” In a way, Houellebecq … More ...
The war within the West
Here’s a factually well-informed account of what the author calls “transnational progressivism” but I’d simply call contemporary liberalism: The Ideological War Within the West. The author underestimates the degree to which the bad guys have won already, and also the degree to which their bad theory is the natural consequence of his good theory, … More ...
What is AI concerned with?
Amnesty International discusses their mission in their current annual report:
… More ...Amnesty International urged that respect for human rights encompass not only the universality, but also the indivisibility of all rights, economic, social and cultural as well as civil and political. As globalization spreads, bringing greater wealth to some and destitution and despair to others,