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 …
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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 …
To Clarify…..
In the Blog entitled The Rule of Law, I mentioned that the Left is informed by two utterly contradictory views of Human Nature which render all its valuations absurd. On the one hand, as suggested by the writings of Darwin, Marx and the Post Moderns, we are power driven monsters seeking to dominate if not …
Defunding the Police
David Clarke, Black Sheriff of Milwaukee County from 2002 to 2017, is disgusted by the anti-police rhetoric of B.L.M. and the consensus media in general, stating that while the police are certainly not perfect, the vast majority of them do an amazing job in circumstances no layman could ever understand. The chief problem as he …
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In an unpublished book I have written which charts the evolution of Western Civilization from its roots in Ancient Greece, I spend a lengthy chapter citing the real-life results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 …
Education or Ideology?
At Stanford University in 1980 Jesse Jackson introduced the chant “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western culture’s got to go.” Over the last 60 years, based on the assumption that it has violated and oppressed both many of its own citizens as well as much of the “third world,” Western Civilization as a core requirement has …
July 22, 2020
Just a few examples of the crass immaturity and narrowness of vision to which I referred in my last entry: It has just been reported that Boston BLM activist Monica Cannon-Grant last week posted on Facebook a vicious diatribe against Republican Rayla Campbell who is challenging radical Leftist Ayanna Pressley for her seat in the …
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 …
“Sensibility” Unleashed
How might the world look if denied the benefits of Saul’s reviled Structure, Efficiency and the Rule of Law? Might it not, in its inevitable dysfunction and deprivation, be one of endlessly contending factions impervious to the needs and rights of others? Might it not be the nightmarish world implied by the theories of de …
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, …