thoughts in and out of season
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 ...
Has public discussion come to an end? Bush and his supporters want to transform the world by force to eliminate tyranny and establish freedom and democracy everywhere. The transformation of the world is to parallel the accelerated tranformation of the United States through effectively open borders. It’s not clear why any of that makes sense, … More ...
The vast resources devoted to research and education or at least schooling today seem to ensure that we’re in a position to carry on everything intelligently. That turns out not to be so. We can’t grasp the world as a whole in thought, and the assumption that we can do so through expertise divorces our … More ...
A common objection to Catholicism is that it imprisons the mind by substituting authority and dogma for free thought and inquiry. The objection restates the modern rejection of revelation and tradition as authorities, and from that point of view is important and should be answered.
One response is that experience doesn’t support the claim that … More ...
Below is a letter my organization has sent to the Editor of the NYT in response to Mr. Craig Smith’s offensive Jan. 27 article.
To the Editor:
Dear Sir,
I am writing on behalf of myself and the organization I represent to express our utmost outrage as members of the Polish nation, at the depiction … More ...
Random findings of tangential culture-war relevance: the Aztecs really did engage in torture, human sacrifice and cannibalism, just like the Spaniards said, and carbon-14 tests did not show the Shroud of Turin is a Medieval fake (the tests were botched, and it now appears the Shroud is between 1300 and 3000 years old.) The … More ...
In line with the principle of nondiscrimination with regard to sexual matters that Rocco Buttiglione supports so solidly, it appears that unemployed German women may lose unemployment benefits if they turn down jobs as prostitutes. On current public understandings it’s hard to find fault with the result. After all, sexual standards are purely personal … More ...
Dear Members,
My name is Kathy Jones and I am the founder of a Yahoo group called The New Victorians.
My group has the ambitious aims to fight politically-correct leftist mentality and to promote traditional values as well as Victorian-inspired architecture, design, fashion and lifestyle.
Among our current 560 members, steadily growing, we count reenactors, … More ...