Prison rape
Confirmation of the view of California Attorney General Bill Lockyer that prison rape is common, white men are targeted, and law enforcement officials act as if it’s OK: Human Rights Watch on male rape in US prisons.
James Kalb
Tradition and the transcendent
What would be necessary for the rebirth of traditional society?
Traditional society is society oriented toward transcendent good. To say a good—the good life, say—has a transcendent element is to say we can’t make what it is altogether explicit or know it sufficiently on our own. If that is so, however, we must rely on … More ...
Tradition and the transcendent
What would be necessary for the rebirth of traditional society?
Traditional society is society oriented toward transcendent good. The two are inseparable. To say a good—the good life, say—has a transcendent element is to say we can’t make what it is altogether explicit or know it sufficiently on our own. If that is so, however, … More ...
More on complaints about liberal tyranny
A liberal might object that my complaints about liberal intolerance and tyranny are really only complaints that liberalism is the political outlook on which Western institutions are now based. As such, it does what any dominant outlook does: it defines itself as truth and other outlooks as deceit, malice or ignorance, and then acts accordingly. … More ...
Coloring the news
Evidently a book to read if you want a closeup view of malfunctions built into advanced liberalism: Coloring the News, by William McGowan. Nat Hentoff, the reviewer, doesn’t see it that way of course. He thinks of inclusiveness as incomplete rather than self-contradictory, even though pursuing any goal—even “inclusiveness”—requires that many things be excluded.
Religion and violence
Religion leads to violence. Dogma divides, experience unites. We hear such things all the time, but are they true?
The answer isn’t obvious. There have been religious wars and persecutions, but also non-religious and anti-religious ones. It was secular ideologies, after all, that led to the political catastrophes of the last century, and the most … More ...
Eviroterrorism
It’s not just the unabomber and the guy who killed Fortuyn: environmentalist terrorism is real.
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!
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