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A series of stories from England displays the features of the emerging transnational order:

• Everything has to be totally controlled by rational legal standards, up to and including:
  1. Things that precede all possible human law, like the ultimate use of force (i.e., war) to decide whose law shall prevail. See “Non-Accountable Organisations” on

The world’s in a bad way, but if we want to turn things around things really aren’t so complicated:

1. Live rightly. You can’t turn the world around unless you can offer the world something worth turning toward.
2. Value the good, beautiful and true more than success. You don’t win on basic issues unless you value

The rock-ribbed Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire is likely to elect the first openly homosexual bishop in the Anglican communion, a man who left his wife and children to move in with the male lover with whom he would presumably share the bishop’s residence.

A lot could be said about the situation. I’ll stand back … More ...

We keep hearing about Saddam’s Baathist party, with never any explanation what it is or what they believe. This may help fill the gap: Saddam’s Brain. It seems it’s basically an Arab version of Naziism, with a mystical vision of race, violence, and purity. It has some Leninist elements as well, like the parallel … More ...

What this means depends on what you bring to it: Afghan opium production is almost at the peak reached before the Taleban suppressed it. What the president of the World Bank draws from that is that “the failure to rid the country of its drug lords and poverty could undermine the West’s moral case for … More ...

Here’s my new weblog, which expands my old Metanoia log and folds in entries from View from the Right (which will continue its separate existence).

As the description states, it’s a place for exploring culture, politics, tradition and Catholicism. The point of view I’ll be presenting is that there’s something wrong with politics and culture … More ...

New hope (of a sort) for EU sufferers: European Commission chief accountant canned after complaining about fraud and abuse, and Oxbridge threatened with financial penalties for merit standards (they make state schools look bad.)

Corruption and incompetence are going to be endemic to the New Europe, because the transnational multicultural managerial order they have there … More ...

More on the Eloi Union (EU): Eurotalk vs. Ameritalk. Why do anything now when you can keep on going through process forever?

Is it torture time? Afghan detainees’ deaths ruled homicides. According to their death certificates, two enemy combatants who died in U.S. custody at Bagram air base in Afghanistan died from blunt-force homicide. In general, the U.S. admits to a policy of using “stress and duress” during interrogation, including deprivation of sleep, various disorienting tactics, … More ...

Italian political posters are much more stylishly designed than in America, and when you combine the high style with the habitual cynicism about government it’s hard to believe any of it should be taken seriously. So when I was in Venice recently I was inclined to view the rainbow-colored peace banners fluttering from windows as … More ...