The N word in Idaho
More adventures with the N word: in Idaho, you can go to jail for saying it. Not up to the Dutch standard, but getting close!
James Kalb
A woman’s right to be by herself
Here’s another aspect of liberal tolerance and freedom: The secret lives of loss for women after abortion, by Melinda Tankard Reist (who has a book on the subject). A woman now has the right to be left on her own in the situation that most obviously connects her to other people.
Jeningrad
Lest we forget, here’s a catalogue of statements about Jenin from what is laughingly called the British quality press. The writer himself goes a bit over the top, though, when he says
… More ...this misreporting was an assault on the truth on a par with the New York Times‘s Walter Duranty’s infamous cover-up of the
Bigotry and scapegoating in Indiana
What happens when a black woman got stabbed to death in a small Indiana town in 1968? Just what you’d expect:
… More ...For nearly 34 years the outside world assumed that the killer was from Martinsville, with its Ku Klux Klan past, and that the police had covered up for the murderer.
Martinsville, which according to
Liberal neutrality
Is liberalism politically necessary, because there’s too little agreement on basics? That’s what is said. Any attempt to enforce non-liberal views, special recognition of a particular religion for example, would be hopelessly divisive and require unacceptable coercion. Religious establishments have been in decline for a long time, and serious attempts to re-impose them today soon … More ...
Paradox of American traditionalism
Traditionalist conservatism has an air of paradox in America. It reinterprets or rejects things often identified as American in the name of understandings people find unfamiliar. After all, many would ask, haven’t Americans always idealized science, progress, material prosperity and individual success? Aren’t we a nation of immigrants from a variety of traditions? Isn’t it … More ...
Paradox of American traditionalism
Traditionalist conservatism has an air of paradox in America. It reinterprets or rejects things often identified as American in the name of understandings people find unfamiliar. After all, many would ask, haven’t Americans always idealized science, progress, material prosperity and individual success? Aren’t we a nation of immigrants from a variety of traditions? Isn’t it … More ...
In our diversity is our strength
This whole diversity thing doesn’t seem to be working: school in uproar after girl (apparently) uses N word in conversation with friends.
The schools are crazy about more than race, of course. Consider zero-tolerance policies in general. But how can you have common sense, which is a matter of customary understandings, if you reject all … More ...
What is traditionalism?
A traditionalist is someone who accepts tradition as authoritative.
That’s not someone who believes that tradition is a good source of suggestions or an acceptable guide when no better can be had. Nor is it someone who thinks that all traditions must always be followed. It’s someone who recognizes that tradition knows more than any … More ...
More liberal tolerance
Tolerance triumphs everywhere, to the point that I’m afraid of boring any remaining readers if I keep on mentioning it: Stanford rejects a football coach because they don’t like his views on homosexuality, student told to support gay rights or get an “F”, and school district sued for forcing gay propaganda.