thoughts in and out of season
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Dear Mr. Kalb and Fellow Readers,
Feminism is partly to blame for Miss Holloway’s tragic end. Feminism says men and women are equal and equality trumps everything; therefore, it is illogical and unfair to propose women should behave different from men.
Proposing that women need to avoid being alone with men the women do not … More ...
A number of good postings over at VFR, on the subject of India and Islam: [url=http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003478.html]here[/url], [url=http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003845.html]here[/url], [url=http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003861.html]here[/url], [url=http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003862.html]here[/url], and [url=http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003872.html]here[/url].
And a chilling quote from an Indian-origin religious studies prof. in Canada, [url=http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003807.html]here[/url].
Dear Fellow Readers,
UF seems impressive. But its goal is to brutalize one’s opponent. What is sportsmans-like about it? I am a former award-winning high school wrestler, and I view UF as a stupid “sport†like boxing, a sport the goal of which is to render one’s opponent stupid. Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling are pure … More ...
Here’s my contribution to The Great Purge: The Deformation of the Conservative Movement Paperback , co-edited by Paul Gottfried and Richard Spencer.
The Closing of the Ring
by James Kalb
What “political correctness” means is that there are more and more topics that cannot be discussed in reputable circles, even among those who say they … More ...
Why do some people say that America is the First Universal Nation when the Muslim Umma is already the first Universal Nation? To me it seems like a bad idea to imitate the Muslims.… More ...
I recently touched on the ambiguity of “random variation” as one of the basic principles of evolution. The word “random” appears to be something of a placeholder. From the point of view of any science, it seems that random events are simply events the science doesn’t try to explain that follow a normal distribution or … More ...
Here’s a poem I’ve always been fond of that’s not my favorite but I was thinking about it today:
… More ...An Immorality (Ezra Pound)
Sing we for love and idleness,
Naught else is worth the having.
Though I have been in many a land,
There is naught else in living.
And I would rather have my
I’ve never put much effort into sorting out the dispute over evolution and intelligent design, partly because it would take too much work and partly because I really don’t understand why, rationally speaking, there’s such an issue. Still, the Cardinal Schönborn situation got me thinking a little about claims that science of necessity is “naturalistic”—it … More ...
Here are some further unsystematic thoughts noted down while reading Political Liberalism:
