Category: Culture & Social Issues

Is history really important? History says it is (and that is not a circular argument) as does the philosopher George Santayana whose famous quote has become a maxim. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Life…

My original plan was write this post yesterday, but my daughter’s Father’s Day gift did me in (literally) and the aftereffects continue to do so for much of today. It all started out with church with my daughter. Afterward, Sarah,…

I have recently come across some writings that call into biblical question the whole framework of modern economics (re: interest-generating loans without which our current socio-economic structure could not exist). By way of example, this post, What Love Is This?…

If you haven’t read it already, you owe it to yourself to the read the May 26, 2005 column of Peggy Noonan. The focus of her column is the gang of fourteen, those six Democrat and six Republican Senators who…

Vox Day has asked his readers what do they think makes up a true man. After giving it some thought, here was my contribution. You are a man when you can be a true son to your father and a…

G.k. Chesterton, in his seminal book Orthodoxy, wrote: What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled on the organ of conviction; where it was never meant…

That has a ring to it don’t you think: the church of the self. It is a phrase taken from a recent Mark Steyn article from April 4th in The Irish Times entitled The Pope’s Divisions. In it Steyn comments…

There is a new word in the lexicon and it is blogstorm. n. When a large amount of activity, information and opinion erupts around a particular subject or controversy in the blogosphere, it is commonly called a blogstorm or blog…

Matt Wrechard at the Belmont Club has been characterizing the Terri Shiavo situation as a “butterfly effect” in that it will have far reaching and currently unknown effects well beyond its absolute significance. One specific section at the end of…

Peggy Noonan is often an insightful commentator. Her last Wall Street Journal piece, I’ll Link to That, comments on several current events, but the one that struck me was her observation on the ongoing flap surrounding Larry Summers, the president…