Support Santorum!
Good causes: support Senator Santorum, and sign a petition against the current attempt to write “gay rights” into international human rights law.
The rich and famous have such problems …
Feminism gives ground for very serious complaints. However, the social location of those whose voices get amplified by the media ensures that they mostly take the form of yuppie kvetching: there can’t be anything wrong with feminism that more and better feminism wouldn’t cure, so that things become what they should be for me. … More ...
Managed thought
Another snapshot of the self-destruction of thought: “Under this asinine rule we’d never have heard of Darwin.” The “asinine rule” is a quantitative measure of scholarly productivity UK bureaucrats use to allocate funds. Academics get high marks by treating “research” as an industrial product. That sort of research is normally worthless, but such questions fall … More ...
The Turnabout Credo
Turnabout is:
- Antimodernist, and rejects the stripped-down understanding of knowledge, reason and reality that has led to the current intellectual, social, and spiritual dead end,
- Hierarchical, and accepts that man is a composite being—free and bound, individual and social, physical and spiritual—and each aspect of what he is must be given weight within
More sexual miscellany
One way to express the contradiction at the heart of “gay marriage” is that it demands the right to a special status—marriage—in the name of abolishing special status. The real effect of such demands is to eliminate marriage in favor of equal treatment of living arrangements. The sentimentality about how nice married life is, and … More ...
Thoughts on ‘sexual identity’ and ‘gay marriage’
The homosexual movement and its allies constantly use the phrase “sexual identity.” The phrase seems to be taken for granted, and is rarely explained and justified. It seems, though, to refer to the notion that our sexual habits and inclinations are fundamental to what we are, more so than religion or even sex in the … More ...
Things published elsewhere
For anyone who’s interested, I just posted some comments on Rick Santorum/Andrew Sullivan at the other blog I participate in, here (page down for further discussion) and here. Also, a couple of essays I wrote recently appeared in print, “Emerson and Us” in Modern Age and “Understanding Conservatism and Tradition” in Telos.
More on the collapse of the American mind
More bulletins on the willed abolition of the American mind:
- The ever-useful Phyllis Schlafly presents a list of instances of how zero-tolerance policies are applied in American schools. I’d give examples, but each is worse than the next—just read the column.
- And on the ever-exciting Rick Santorum front,
- Ben Shapiro, puzzling like so many over
“Social science” on prejudice etc.
John Ray, an anti-leftist social scientist in Australia, has a couple of blogs for his academic papers (here and here—I don’t know why he has two). Many of the papers are concerned with debunking social science theories advanced in support of efforts to combat what is called “bigotry.” What he finds in … More ...
Why I became Catholic
The local Una Voce chapter did a short email interview of their most recent convert to Catholicism and the Latin Mass (me). Here’s the Q&A:
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- How long have you assisted at the traditional Latin Mass in Brooklyn? How did you find out about it?
A bit more than a year, since the Lent before this