The ideology of today’s left according to the leftists
Ms. Marina Subirats, a sociologist and a member of the socialist municipal government of Barcelona, Spain, where the Olympic Games were celebrated in 1992, recently declared to the media what is, in her opinion, the present ideology of the political left, that she proudly represents. Few times, if any, one significant leftist spoke so clearly, … More ...
More thoughts on the blue state of mind
The ’60s, bracketed as they were by the school prayer and abortion decisions, stand for definitive public rejection of the transcendent in favor of a wholly this-worldly understanding of reality. In the absence of a superior point of reference, the social order became the ultimate moral reality and human choice the ultimate authority. For … More ...
Some notes on traditionalist futurology and the internet
Can the internet and traditionalism get along? On the face of it, the net sums up the most extreme features of the modern world. It destroys particular connections by making everything equally present to everything else. With all things in the same setting and position, the meaning and significance of things has nowhere to establish … More ...
Rolling Back Women’s Rights
“Americans, and American women in particular, are officially on notice that post-election, the Republican war on reproductive rights has entered an ominous new phase”
How is this so?, exactly.
Are not Americans; the Doctors and pharmacists?
Is this not a “war”, that could be won, without “ANY” discrimination?
By forcing my will on anyone; is … More ...
The rights of conscience in America today
Here’s the latest on mutual respect and public neutrality, as filtered through what now passes for American public thought: a U.S. appeals court says that law schools, which have never seen a federal antidiscrimination rule on faculty hiring they don’t like, can ignore a federal law that says they can’t discriminate against military recruiters and … More ...
Boycott anti-Christmas department store, Boscov’s
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Selective Tolerance in Poland, or How Leftist Ideals Turned Out to be ‘More Equal’ Than Others
A story from Poland available [url=http://www.koliber.net/index/index.php?action=show&object=article&id=2654]here[/url] on how a conservative group protesting against the discrimination against men, against the unborn, against the wealthy (through high taxes) and against people with traditional Christian views on morality was [b]banned[/b] from a declaredly pro-tolerance, pro-equality, pro-democracy and pro-freedom “Equality March”.
The march was organized by a cluster of … More ...
Natural society
Is there such a thing as “natural society”? The difference between the traditional and modernist outlook is that the former believes in it and the latter does not, at least if “nature” is taken to refer to anything substantial and not simply to content-free abstractions like freedom and equality. The traditional standpoint is that basic … More ...
Another note on subsidiarity
A point raised in my last entry, that the realization that social engineering isn’t possible makes nonsense of a lot of current political, social and religious thought, is worth expanding. One implication is that a “top down” understanding of subsidiarity, in which government watches to see if families or whatever are doing what they should, … More ...