Catholicism and the tolerant state
Liberal tolerance marches on: “Judge rules Catholic school must allow gay student to take boyfriend to prom”.
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Feminism at MIT
Survey design isn’t something most people feel strongly about, but I find this depressing: “MIT Surrenders the Scientific Method”.
I suppose it’s partly because when I was a Wall Street lawyer I dealt with engineers occasionally on project financings, and when you’d ask them a question they’d actually give you their honest judgment. That … More ...
More UN hi-jinx
I keep getting things about family-related doings at the UN. Here’s one about American resistance to efforts by the EU, Canada and the Latin American countries[!] to redefine the family and make abortion a right for teenagers.
Doesn’t the fact that these things have become questions of international politics show that something extremely strange—and wrong—has … More ...
Melanie Phillips and Western identity
Melanie Phillips, the British journalist, has made the Fortuyn murder an occasion for commenting on contradictions within liberalism. Her article is a good start, but she has a way to go before she escapes from the contradictions she discusses. It’s worth discussing the piece from that point of view, because it is representative … More ...
Pope thinks priests are different
As I mentioned in my longish piece on Christianity and politics a couple of days ago, a great strength of the Christian view is that it provides a way to recognize and value genuine human differences. Since “celebrating diversity” can’t mean insisting that everyone be the same, Christian orthodoxy can never buy into the opposition … More ...
Modern Christian martyrs
It seems unlikely that those who prosecuted Brigitte Bardot for criticising Islam or Le Pen for calling gas chambers a “detail” will now go against critics of Christianity, even though a new compilation shows that during the last century 45,000,000 Christians were killed for their religion.
Death makes us all equal, but some are more … More ...
Reparations news service
All reparations all the time: to keep in touch with fast-breaking news, go to slaveryreparations.com at newstrove.com!
I wonder if this would be possible for other people, to set up Google news or whatever to do a standard search that turns up items of special interest to right-wingers and lists them on a page … More ...
Human ID chips
We knew it was coming, but it’s not pleasant when it happens: “First Humans to Receive ID Chips”. Brave New World meets Big Brother!
Still, the question is whether technology only provides solutions to particular issues or whether it can control the overall system of human life. My guess is the former. The more … More ...
Dutch constitution
A friend points out an NRO article by Rod Dreher detailing Fortuyn’s platform. All very mild. The most interesting point is that Article 1 of the Dutch Constitution forbids discrimination—by anyone—on “religion, belief, political opinion, race or sex, or on any other grounds whatsoever.” So in Holland you have to carry on all relations with … More ...