thoughts in and out of season
Boldly venturing into the belly of the beast, I went to Canada last week and gave a talk on “sexism” at a conference on Breaking the Shackles: The Global Burden of Oppression at Upper Canada College in Toronto (“college” means “high school” in this case). In the event the visit turned out perfectly pleasant. The … More ...
Martin Peretz notes in his publication The New Republic that liberalism is “bookless and dying.” He’s right, of course. A political movement with no guides in sight other than consultants, careerists and cranks isn’t going to go anywhere. The problem is that the lack of thought and vision isn’t peculiar to the Left. … More ...
Samuel T. Francis: April 29, 1947 – February 15, 2005
R.I.P.
See [url=http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Francis05/NewsSF021605.html]here[/url], and also [url=http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/www/News/Francis05/NewsSF021605b.html]here[/url]; also, for a huge collection of his syndicated columns, see [url=http://vdare.com/francis/index.htm]here[/url].
This does seem encouraging, although there’s a long way to go. One of the ‘ulema is putting it on the line and debating imprisoned radicals as to the Islamic correctness of their understanding of jihad:
… More ...“If you can convince us that your ideas are justified by the Koran, then we will join you in
I don’t know how to interpret anything, the Pope, sanctity and Vatican politics least of all, but it still seems interesting from several perspectives that the Pope reportly intends to hang on long enough to canonize Pius XII.
UPDATE: That won’t happen if the apparent prayers of William F. Buckley, Jr. for the Pope’s … More ...
A slice of life for a socially conservative Christian journalist in the Big City: Eden in Exile.
Everybody today thinks laws against employment discrimination are a great good and even a moral requirement. I think they’re an obvious evil. I think they’re inconsistent with any reasonable conservatism, which means I think they’re inconsistent with any tolerable society. I’ve complained about them here and there on Turnabout, but a summary of the … More ...
The Catholic Church in England and Wales has issued some Diversity and Equality Guidelines on the relationship between antidiscrimination law and the mission of the Church and its agencies. The Guidelines have drawn some unfavorable comment because of their positive treatment of “living together” (including homosexual) situations. Beyond the specific issues, however, they include a … More ...
Here is the short essay I contributed to Nikos Salingaros’ book Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction. They edited it a bit in the final version. The book is a recommended read, although I’m admittedly not neutral, and if you don’t like what I have to say in English you can also buy it in German:
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In November Tom Wolfe’s latest novel, “I Am Charlotte Simmons”, was published. It’s his effort to portray, in the Wolfean style, student life at a contemporary, elite, American university. It does so with a coarse realism equal to its subject matter.
The response from the professional critics has been overwhelmingly negative, sometimes bitterly so. (This … More ...