Over the course of the day, Paul Cella and I have been kicking the immigration can around at RedState. What follows is a replication of that debate to its current point. Part the First: In Case You Thought This was Going Away – Leon Tens of thousands of protestors lined the streets of Los Angeles, [...]
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On the survival of privacy.
December 29th, 2010 
admin It is not obvious that true privacy in our day will endure the ministrations of its narrow partisans. There is a bizarre sort of double effect on the idea of privacy right now: a simultaneous exaggeration and diminution. Its deterioration as a firm principle of life proceeds at once with the hoarsest and most desperate [...]
Why the Heck Not?
December 29th, 2010 admin Via Reuters, we have another helpful reminder that we’re not on a slippery slope, we’re in a sinkhole: SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist state said on Wednesday. Ri Kwang-chol, who fled [...]
Auto da fe.
December 29th, 2010 admin The phenomenon of Hispanic converts to Islam is a growing one. The most famous thus far is Jose Padilla, but he is hardly alone: estimates are almost impossible to verify, and the sources are predictably biased. But if we take CAIR’s figures as being more or less reasonable, we can figure on tens of thousands [...]
The defect of right-Liberalism.
December 29th, 2010 admin There is in that school of thought from which President Bush has drawn his principle of foreign policy a peculiarly debilitating problem that merits our attention. It is superficially a problem of priority, but at base it is a blunder of the intellect. It will be asked that I name the school of thought in [...]
Barbarians in the gates.
December 29th, 2010 admin We care about Europe for the same reason we care for the suicidal: because a chosen fate is not inherently a just one, and we are called to act when an unjust end threatens. We care about Europe because filial piety is still a virtue: we are, in the end, a European nation as surely [...]
Compromising Positions
December 29th, 2010 admin I made the mistake the other night of laying aside some good reading material to go channel surfing and ended up on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. I don’t know if I was spinning in circles by the time it was over, but I was certainly disoriented. One segment’s content reminded me of an earlier post [...]
Politics and the Myth of a Pre-Social Human Nature
December 29th, 2010 admin The present moment is one beset by seemingly interminable and intractable (as indeed they must be, given the presuppositions of the warring parties) disputes concerning the relevance of human nature to political, even geopolitical, questions. That may seem, to some, a prima facie absurd and portentious declaration, but there it is. Its truth is manifest [...]
The face of the enemy.
December 29th, 2010 admin More amazing than the existence of the cartoon protests themselves — when has barbarism not lurked within and without our civilization? — is the fact that the dead so far have been mostly Muslim. Indeed, outside of the Catholic priest slaughtered in Turkey some days ago, there has been no organized vengeance pogrom against non-Muslims [...]
What to do (a beginning).
December 29th, 2010 admin The Cartoon Jihad has provoked some valuable discussion, but we are still very far from where we need to be. We are still very far from the kind of discussion that a free republican people, jealous of its liberty, must undertake. We are still very far from satisfactorily discharging our duty of self-government. The Boston [...]
