thoughts in and out of season
At an American Catholic university it’s discriminatory and thus opposed to institutional purposes to treat Christian commitment as relevant to moral and social commitment. A pro-life club at Gonzaga University can’t receive official recognition as a student organization while restricting leadership positions to Christians. It’s just not done at Gonzaga, it seems, to treat Christianity … More ...
Merry Christmas!
From Turnabout
More questions from my Finnish correspondent, with responses:
… More ...Q: If the possession of property is necessary for development of responsibility and virtue, it seems reasonable to desire an extension of this possession to as many as possible. Why don’t American conservatives make more of that issue?
A: I think that the notion that government action
A Finnish correspondent sent me some questions about the current overall situation, where it’s likely to go, and what to do about it. I thought others might find them of interest, so here they are with my responses:
… More ...Q: How do we know that faith in the omnicompetence of technique will give way to anything
Computer simulations of artificial societies are leading to social science that seems illuminating, and conceivably might even be useful at some point. At least that’s what an account by Jonathan Rauch in The Atlantic Monthly suggests. Some interesting results:
From Newman onward, the chief sensation many converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism have had when looking back at their old communion is amazement at its utter nothingness. Converts’ views aren’t always fair, but it does seem that the habitual accusations against a serious enterprise would involve something worse than general dottiness. An recent example: the … More ...
Ba’athism is said to be an Arab form of Naziism. A point in favor of that interpretation is that Saddam’s regime, like the Nazis, seems to have been heavily involved in the occult. If you make power your God, and say it trumps truth, then it seems there’s no limit on what imaginary … More ...
Is there a site that keeps track of homosexualist puffery the way VDARE keeps track of Christmas bashing and PC Watch and Tongue Tied keep track of PC weirdness? Anyway, here’s a few items to help you keep your grip on where things are:
The War Against Christmas competition at VDARE is worth checking out. From a blogger’s point of view, it’s a public service that saves the rest of us from having to list all the seasonal enormities, for example the community bulletin board in England that doesn’t allow notices about Christmas carols or the policy of the … More ...
Black parents are upset that a white principal spelled out the N-word as an example of something that shouldn’t be used, while congressmen are upset that the FTC now allows the F-word to be used as an expletive.
These issues are impossible to decide in a way people agree makes sense. Since language is part … More ...