Headliner gets headlined
A slice of life for a socially conservative Christian journalist in the Big City: Eden in Exile.
Society and culture
Some thoughts on culpability
Here is the short essay I contributed to Nikos Salingaros’ book Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction. They edited it a bit in the final version. The book is a recommended read, although I’m admittedly not neutral, and if you don’t like what I have to say in English you can also buy it in German:
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A bad Idea continues its march through History
In line with the principle of nondiscrimination with regard to sexual matters that Rocco Buttiglione supports so solidly, it appears that unemployed German women may lose unemployment benefits if they turn down jobs as prostitutes. On current public understandings it’s hard to find fault with the result. After all, sexual standards are purely personal … More ...
Acceptance of mainstream radicalism weakening
I had sensed something like this, so it’s interesting to see such decisive confirmation: New Survey Shows Religious Americans More Inclined to Stand Their Ground. It seems that people today are more likely to say politicians should stand by their principles on “cultural” issues. The change among church-goers since 2000 has been quite substantial, … More ...
Summers and Academic Winter
How long has it been since being a college president was a respectable job? Every time one gets appointed it seems it’s because of his passionate personal embrace of “diversity.” It’s not so important what happens, as long as people from officially protected groups get as big a piece of the action as possible. Leading … More ...
The ever-more-glorious present
More signs of the times:
- The Canadians are closing down potluck suppers and bake sales. It seems they’re not regulated and bureaucratized enough (home kitchens aren’t inspected for compliance with commercial standards) and so are bad for public health.
- And in Michigan, a female middle school teacher who lives with another woman and their
Gloom, doom and the FCC
Here’s a claim that 99.8 percent of FCC indecency complaints were filed by a single activist group. The facts seem a little confused, but the evident general inactivity on the conservative side of the issue is the sort of thing the “conservative trend” in American life amounts to. The truth is that there isn’t … More ...
More thoughts on the blue state of mind
The ’60s, bracketed as they were by the school prayer and abortion decisions, stand for definitive public rejection of the transcendent in favor of a wholly this-worldly understanding of reality. In the absence of a superior point of reference, the social order became the ultimate moral reality and human choice the ultimate authority. For … More ...
The rights of conscience in America today
Here’s the latest on mutual respect and public neutrality, as filtered through what now passes for American public thought: a U.S. appeals court says that law schools, which have never seen a federal antidiscrimination rule on faculty hiring they don’t like, can ignore a federal law that says they can’t discriminate against military recruiters and … More ...
Onward and upward, worse and worse
According to a generally thoughtful and well-informed conservative weblog, Power Line, a recent poll shows
… More ...“Americans believe by a 62 percent to 26 percent margin that American society ‘is generally fair and decent.’ This strikes me as a bit alarming. I’m pretty sure that such a survey taken 45 years ago, when I first