My new blog
God, Family, Nation
http://godfaimilynation.blogspot.com/
Here I outline the basic principles that my blog stands for:
http://godfaimilynation.blogspot.com/2006/01/welcome-to-god-family-nation.html
Where are we
In France, an MP is fined and denounced vehemently for criticizing homosexuality, and the Culture Minister wants him kicked out of the party. In this country we mostly don’t fine people for saying the wrong thing, we just re-educate them or put them in therapy. And then there’ll always be an England, … More ...
A slice of the future
A neat dramatization of digital privacy concerns: The Google Robot FAQ (Last update: November 1st, 2030).
Kill or Be Killed
Dear Mr. Kalb and Fellow Readers,
Does philosophy help us decide what to do about Iran’s nuclear weapon’s program? Yes. Kill or be killed. This is not a philosophy we are used to hearing. We are used to hearing well-structured arguments against violence and war; these arguments are overwhelmingly liberal. For example, the liberal objection … More ...
Back to the Founding
A reader wrote to comment on my essay on Traditionalism and the American Order, saying that I overstate the liberalism and understate the traditionalism of the American order. My response:
… More ...I don’t think I said that the U.S. as it has existed has been basically a product of liberalism or that it was stable
Discriminations and our common life
There’s a recent piece at View from the Right pointing out that while the call of Harvard academic Noel Ignatieff to “abolish the white race” sounds radical, it is really no different than the usual liberal and even mainstream conservative position that we should all work toward a state of affairs in which race doesn’t … More ...
Italian writer files suit against priest for, in effect, being Catholic. Defendant must appear in court later this month.
Paul Belien has a log entry up today in which he cites a few of the latest instances of the post-modern attack on Christianity by Europe’s élites:
A Swedish jeans manufacturer calls religion “a force of evil” and has designed a jeans brand with an anti-Christian logo: “Bjorn Atldax has designed a jeans brand … More ...
Elites and the Mob
I have been reading Hannah Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism,” within which is a section on the affinity of the Western elites for the mob and the mob’s values (or anti-values), goals, and methods. By “mob,” Arendt means those who, by choice or circumstance, stand outside civilized society and against the most basic values of civilized … More ...
The Terror and The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Terror still threatens us all. Islam and liberals seek to destroy the ruling class in the West: Christians. Robes Pierre and his thugs sought to destroy the ruling class in the West: St. Louis King of France and his followers. The lunatics dared to blame the aristocracy for all the atrocities committed by thugs. … More ...