thoughts in and out of season
UN experts criticize British record on social issues! After all, the Brits haven’t yet adopted comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation as required by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (145 signatories), even though they’ve had since 1976 to do it. Besides, the experts are “deeply troubled” by the increase in domestic violence. Who … More ...
In Japan it’s still possible to talk about race suicide, it appears. Still, it’s hard to imagine what they’ll do about it. The prime minister suggests continuing the transfer of the functions of the family to the state (more welfare benefits, better childcare). The UN on the other hand wants them to import 600,000 … More ...
More thoughts on liberalism! (Sorry for devoting so much space to the topic, but it’s better than pederasty and prison rape.)
Liberalism wins arguments each step of the way, because it is concerned only with the articulate. It refers to the inarticulate as prejudice, stereotype, obscurantism, and so on. It therefore has no interest in … More ...
Here’s something I wrote for a local newspaper a few years back. It didn’t get published then, so I thought I’d give it a second chance now:
… More ...Senator Moynihan noted not long ago [in The Public Interest] that in 1943 there were 73,000 persons on relief in New York City. In that year there
There’s always be a … whatever: an English university forbids flying the English flag.
Confirmation of the view of California Attorney General Bill Lockyer that prison rape is common, white men are targeted, and law enforcement officials act as if it’s OK: Human Rights Watch on male rape in US prisons.
What would be necessary for the rebirth of traditional society?
Traditional society is society oriented toward transcendent good. To say a good—the good life, say—has a transcendent element is to say we can’t make what it is altogether explicit or know it sufficiently on our own. If that is so, however, we must rely on … More ...
What would be necessary for the rebirth of traditional society?
Traditional society is society oriented toward transcendent good. The two are inseparable. To say a good—the good life, say—has a transcendent element is to say we can’t make what it is altogether explicit or know it sufficiently on our own. If that is so, however, … More ...
A liberal might object that my complaints about liberal intolerance and tyranny are really only complaints that liberalism is the political outlook on which Western institutions are now based. As such, it does what any dominant outlook does: it defines itself as truth and other outlooks as deceit, malice or ignorance, and then acts accordingly. … More ...
Evidently a book to read if you want a closeup view of malfunctions built into advanced liberalism: Coloring the News, by William McGowan. Nat Hentoff, the reviewer, doesn’t see it that way of course. He thinks of inclusiveness as incomplete rather than self-contradictory, even though pursuing any goal—even “inclusiveness”—requires that many things be excluded.