thoughts in and out of season
Usually I just glance at the New York Times, so I miss most of the goodies, and I’m glad when someone points them out. So I was happy when Diana West noted in a recent column that the Times is apparently incapable of identifying the Muslim suicide terrorists who seized the theater in Moscow … More ...
Theodore Dalrymple has an article in City Journal, The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris, that details conditions in the housing projects in which the French have been fostering the development of a peculiarly destructive immigrant underclass. The piece has some fascinating aspects, many of them relevant to recent VFR discussions:
John Leo has written what can serve as a follow-up to recent VFR discussions on “racial profiling” and the Beltway Sniper case: P.C. timidity in sniper case may have cost lives. A key additional bit of information Leo provides is that “Eric Hickey, a criminal psychology professor at California State University-Fresno, says there are … More ...
John Noble Wilford of The New York Times takes a rather interesting report on paleopathology to the effect that there had been a very long-term decline in Indians’ health before 1492, and demonstrates that he simply can’t think about such things without bringing in Left ideology: Don’t Blame Columbus for All the Indians’ Ills. … More ...
So Emory canned their most famous award-winning historian: Michael Bellesiles Resigns from Emory Faculty. It’s nice that when things get bad enough something happens sometimes. It’s not likely though that much will happen often, given the apparent state of the academic history profession.
One more in a series of allegations against aid workers and peacekeepers: UN discounts charges of widespread refugee abuse. As we’ve noted recently, those who have custody of the weak are subject to peculiar temptations, and people who intend to give into the temptations even seek out such positions. Modern social policy is … More ...
Another article from Britain with interesting facts and confused thinking: Singleton society. The same trends that make marriages fragile make close personal connections of any sort increasingly rare and unstable. The scenario plainly won’t last, and we’ll end up Muslims if we can’t come up with anything better. Nonetheless, the author (a sociologist) tries … More ...
It will be interesting to see what happens on this: Vatican prepares draft directives against admitting gays as priests. It seems an issue the Church can’t dodge, but it also seems that the post-Vatican II habit of finding some way to make common cause with every tendency approved by modernity is impossibly difficult to … More ...
It’s not only The Age, it’s also The New York Times that is being forced to recognize the obvious: A New Look at Old Data May Discredit a Theory on Race. It now appears that the data used by Franz Boas, mentor of the notorious intellectual charlatan and sexual adventuress Margaret Mead, did … More ...
It’s an error to think of Gro Harlem Brundlandt as a loner carrying on a one-woman crime wave. It is now clear she has associates: United Nations urges Blair to outlaw smacking.