thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb Another sign that social issues are now a matter of international legal norms to be applied by jurists and other experts: the US State Department report on US compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It lists “lingering disparities,” Rodney King and Amadou Diallo as examples of how far … More ...
American public life today: a Massachusetts town declines to sign on to an ADL re-education campaign so there’s a national outcry capped by the appearance of 8th grader on the Today show. A Bid to Legislate Love Splits a New England Town includes an account of someone who thought he had been a victim of … More ...
To be like one thing is to be different from another. The things that divide are therefore the same as the things that unite. That’s so obviously true that it’s hard to imagine how anyone could ever have seen “inclusiveness” as a possible ideal.
If it’s presented as an ideal there’s a shell game going … More ...
I wonder what would have happened if the Brits had the strong antidiscrimination law the UN says they’re obligated to adopt? Winterton race joke prompts police probe—she was a Tory MP who got sacked as rural affairs spokeswoman after referring to ethnic Asians as “10 a penny” while telling an after-dinner joke at a … More ...
The ACLU never stops being educational. When they aren’t protecting students disciplined for coloring their hair blue or disrupting school events (the disruption had to do with protesting something), they’re fighting abstinence education and single-sex schools. Our liberties are in good hands!
UN experts criticize British record on social issues! After all, the Brits haven’t yet adopted comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation as required by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (145 signatories), even though they’ve had since 1976 to do it. Besides, the experts are “deeply troubled” by the increase in domestic violence. Who … More ...
In Japan it’s still possible to talk about race suicide, it appears. Still, it’s hard to imagine what they’ll do about it. The prime minister suggests continuing the transfer of the functions of the family to the state (more welfare benefits, better childcare). The UN on the other hand wants them to import 600,000 … More ...
More thoughts on liberalism! (Sorry for devoting so much space to the topic, but it’s better than pederasty and prison rape.)
Liberalism wins arguments each step of the way, because it is concerned only with the articulate. It refers to the inarticulate as prejudice, stereotype, obscurantism, and so on. It therefore has no interest in … More ...
Here’s something I wrote for a local newspaper a few years back. It didn’t get published then, so I thought I’d give it a second chance now:
… More ...Senator Moynihan noted not long ago [in The Public Interest] that in 1943 there were 73,000 persons on relief in New York City. In that year there
There’s always be a … whatever: an English university forbids flying the English flag.