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Category Archives: Culture and Religion
Changing of the Guard in the NHL?
…or at least fresh blood. If Ottawa and Florida win their Game 7s tonight: Teams remaining (with Cup history): Nashville – never Phoenix – never St. Louis – three Finals (’67, ‘68, ‘69) when they represented the new conference after … Continue reading
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Apocalypse fatigue, philosophical variation
Pascal Bruckner, writing in City Journal, argues that secular elites prophesy a doomsday without redemption. It reads to me like a philosophical/moral variation of Steven Hayward’s more political apocalypse fatigue. (The “issue-attention cycle” applied to the green movement.) From Bruckner’s … Continue reading
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The framework for the pursuit of happiness
Charles Murray – author of several books including the recent Coming Apart – was interviewed on Uncommon Knowledge this week. The entire interview is worth your time, here are two choice excerpts: [Five centuries before the fall], Rome took its … Continue reading
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Nationalization of the family
Great analogy from Professor Vaidyanathan of the Indian Institute of Management, subject of a column by Mark Steyn, Bringing It Home: Bangalore is also home to the Indian Institute of Management, wherein resides Professor R. Vaidyanathan. The professor has an … Continue reading
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Steyn: “the irrationalism of the hyper-rational state”
Mark Steyn’s weekend column is especially funny (“no taxation without rubberization” heh heh) and he also gives the topic full length treatment in The Church of Big Government in the 3/5/12 edition of National Review (and below the jump) that’s … Continue reading
The “religion of humanity” has forgotten that it’s a religion
From the current Goldberg File (subscribe here): I honestly think that today’s liberals have little to no conception of how liberalism has become a religion unto to itself. Indeed, modern politics could be seen as “a chapter in the history … Continue reading
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10 years later: Tyvm, E. Howard Crosby
If marriage is considered only in the context of the happiness of consenting adults, who’s to say any arrangement is wrong? But even if we “bracket the interests of children” do we really appreciate what we’re asking for? I know … Continue reading
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Book review: “Coming Apart”
David Brooks, writing (The Great Divorce) last month in the NYT, said he’d be shocked “if there’s another book this year as important as Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart.” (Here’s an interview/review with Charles Murray about his book.) Murray’s argument is … Continue reading
Backfire: dog whistle designed for feminists works on Catholics instead
The really bad gaffes in politics are the ones that crystallize an image voters hold, perhaps only half-formed or subconsciously, into a firm (negative) opinion that’s impossible to shake. (E.g., Dan Quayle misspelling potato, or Bill Clinton “depends on the … Continue reading
Different ways to get rich
From this week’s Radio Derb Getting rich, right ways and wrong ways. So far as the morality of getting rich is concerned, I guess we all have our own rankings. At the top of my rankings are citizens who get … Continue reading
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