Paradigm for the Simple-Minded

Nothing better illustrates the inadequacy of the “progressive” paradigm than its inability to deal with the realities, both past and present, of Islam. In June of 2016 the Washington Post published an article by Dr. Asifa Quraishi-Landes, associate professor of law at the U. of Wisconsin, entitled “Five Myths about Sharia Law.” On the one …

Violating History [and logic]

The practice of applying 21st Century Egalitarian criteria, criteria which are eminently disputable, to the beliefs and achievements of individuals who lived hundreds of years ago, is devoid of both moral and intellectual integrity, yet pursued with reckless abandon by our academics and “intellectuals” as well as those mindless mobs intent on eliminating every trace …

The Cult of Victimhood

In an unpublished book I have written which charts the evolution of Western Civilization from its roots in Ancient Greece, I spend a lengthy chapter citing the real-life results of the so-called Romantic Rebellion against the “restrictive” Rationalism of the Enlightenment. This may seem to have little relevance to our contemporary world but please bear …

The Devaluation of “Truth”

Romanticism’s disdain for what Blake termed “the realm of necessity” emerged naturally from the speculations of the philosophers of the 18th Century. Enlightenment thinkers had generally assumed the empirical world to be an accessible source of Objective Truth, but Emmanuel Kant [1724-1804] separated the Subject from the Object, distinguishing between noumena [things in themselves] and …

Through Rose-Colored Glasses

In the aforementioned Viewpoint discussion between Christina Hoff Sommers and Camille Paglia, the latter suggests that “progressivism” ultimately places its faith in the unsubstantiated and incredibly naive principle that if you’re nice to other people they will be nice to you. It’s clearly a reference to the sort of pseudo-scientific drivel served up by Saul, …