Flagg Taylor is a professor of political theory and such at Skidmore College, a friend, and the editor of the essential new collection on totalitarianism and dissent called The Great Lie. And now he’s blogging at Ricochet, home of the blogosphere’s best comments section, writing posts . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a friend of mine who is a huge racing fan. He likes F1 and tends to look down on other racing formats and series like NASCAR and Indy Car (and its earlier offshoot, Champ Car). Yet he is such a racing fan that he watches them all, and secretly likes them all—along with Le Mans (both the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Culture of Death is voracious. Once it begins to feed, it is never satiated, the categories of the killable, never finally enough.Another is a very long series of cases in point that I have been reporting on for nearly twenty years. The Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) now seeks to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Cain boom is in its final weeks. National Review has found the frame for attacking the 9-9-9 plan. It is a 9% VAT + a 9% sales tax + a 9% income tax. Now I don’t think that National Review editorials move a decisive number of votes, but the argument that Cain is going to . . . . Continue Reading »
So you all know that you need to read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. But hey, that’s a 600-page book! Well, here’s the chapters you just cannot skip. I helped out a colleague with this recently, and I may as well pass the info onto y’all. From volume one part one . . . . Continue Reading »
The AMA News has an article out about how Obamacare is looking increasingly to bust the bank. It gets into the supposed need to restrict access to treatments based on ”evidence based” medicine, the propriety of which, it seems to me, depends on how that term is defined in the . . . . Continue Reading »
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia plans to open an “interreligious and intercultural dialogue center” in Vienna, Austria, it was reported this past week. The plan immediately met with a cool response from some prominent Jews and Catholics, whose respective faiths are virtually . . . . Continue Reading »
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A new study published in the Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy shows that the more materialistic a marriage, the less happy they’re likely to be—even if both spouses put a priority on money and material goods. From the abstract: Previous research has shown that spousal . . . . Continue Reading »
The emotional commitment in some intellectual quarters to human UNexceptionalism continues to alarm me. As does the belief that scientific findings have reduced us to mere meat. We are far more than that.Part of it may involve a disdain for religion in some quarters that conflates HE . . . . Continue Reading »
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