Part of this morning’s reading is Charles Krauthammer’s ” Moving from Left to Right ” about his political conversion, from his book, Things That Matter. Therein, he tells the story of how his mind changed from when he was young and part of the Democratic party and . . . . Continue Reading »
The logic of the sexual revolution continues to play itself out in exactly the way defenders of “traditional” marriage and norms of sexual morality saw (and said) that it would. When I and many others noted that the abandonment of the idea of marriage as a conjugal union and its . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Continetti has a terrific column about how the Center for American Progress was able to connect liberal fundraisers, grassroots activists, intellectuals and Democratic politicians to move the Democratic party and the political culture to the left. By 2008, even though the various . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s Friday! This week is going by awfully fast. Just yesterday, it seemed to be Wednesday . . . . At Postmodern Conservative , John Presnall defends himself . (Quoth Presnall: “Whenever someone you dont really know tells you that you must not do such and such, it often provokes a . . . . Continue Reading »
William McGurn reports on last Monday’s Erasmus Lecture in today’s New York Post : Did you hear the one about the rabbi, the pope and the humanist? You did if you were at the Union League Club Monday evening. The rabbi is Jonathan Sacks, the pope is Francis and the humanist is . . . . Continue Reading »
First off, I would like to WELCOME Flagg Taylor and Michael Davis (aka PSEUDOPLOTINUS) to the highly competent and effective TEAM POSTMODERN CONSERVATIVE. Other change you can believe in is around the corner. I really appreciate John Presnall’s post below. I have been quarreling with various . . . . Continue Reading »
What Marx Thought David Pederson, Ethika Politika “I Quit Academia”: A Growing Subgenre of Essay Rebecca Schuman, Slate The Civic Solution to the Privacy Problem Evgeny Morozov, MIT Technology Review Mere Christianity and the Creeds James Chastek, Just Thomism Aimless Love . . . . Continue Reading »
The old newspaper clipping shows two families, one descended from a white man and a black woman and the other descended from two white people, with the text, “Interesting researches by the Carnegie Institute disprove the popular notion that a ‘pass-for-white’ person married to a . . . . Continue Reading »
As a fellow left-handed person, I cannot subscribe to Russell Saltzman’s lament in his “On the Square” essay today. I don’t really know anything about the comparative life expectancy (or accident-proneness) of lefties and righties. But I do know that whenever I am in a . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the FBIs arrest of two rabbis who allegedly orchestrated the kidnapping and torture of dozens of men in New Jersey. The rabbis allegedly did this in order to force the men to consent to their wives requests for divorce under Jewish law. . . . . Continue Reading »