Last night I saw, as I see every year, what I have long believed to be the last, best hope of the West: home schooling parents and children in action. Every year our local home schooling association has its Talent Night on the Friday nearest to St. Patrick’s Day, which of course this year was [...]
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Sex and the innovators.
December 30th, 2010 
admin David Brooks, that sociologist of postmodernity, contributed a stimulating essay to the April 2003 number of Atlantic Monthly entitled, provocatively, “The Return of the Pig.” That is, the male chauvinist pig. He surveys influential constituents of popular culture — Maxim magazine, Comedy Central’s The Man Show, rap musicians — and concludes perceptively that feminists have [...]
On Roger Scruton on Dying Quietly
December 29th, 2010 admin My Right Reason blog colleague, eminent British conservative Roger Scruton, has posted an excerpt from his forthcoming book, A Conservative Philosophy, on Right Reason. The excerpt concerns end-of-life issues and the possibility of legalizing euthanasia in England. Since Professor Scruton is indeed a widely acclaimed conservative thinker, readers of EM may be surprised at my saying, [...]
Just another one of many
December 29th, 2010 admin Here’s a report, apparently substantiated by Missouri Right to Life, of one Kelly Meyer, now in her ninth day without food or water. The agitated friend who has drawn attention to the situation is almost certainly without legal standing and can do nothing but tell the world. The decision to remove the feeding tube from Kelly, [...]
Maybe I was wrong
December 29th, 2010 admin In the comments thread on my post below, I said that I didn’t know yet of a case where legally custodial relatives have been unable to stop medical murder by dehydration. That may change soon, as indicated by this frustratingly sketchy report from Wesley J. Smith. The sketchiness is not Smith’s fault. The family, most [...]
A New Declaration
December 29th, 2010 admin Or, An Experiment in Immigration Esoterics: The Logic of the Current Controversy. When confronted by enormities cloaked in anodyne language that scarcely, if ever, rises above the euphemistic and obfuscatory (Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act? – few legislative monikers are further divorced from the actual content of the bills to which they are appended…), thoughtful observers [...]
Derbyshire, Ponnuru, and Really Bad Philosophy
December 29th, 2010 admin Ramesh Ponnuru’s fine work on the fealty of many intellectual and political elites, particularly on the left side of the political aisle, The Party of Death, despite its status as a lucidly written and cogently argued presentation of the Culture of Life position on our ongoing cultural and political struggles over the relationships between and [...]
Right After You Were Born, Mommy Sued Her Doctor Because…
December 29th, 2010 admin In a lot of ways, our culture has made progress over the last 50 years in the way we treat the disabled – especially in the way we ensure access to facilities and treatment, and employment. In an entirely different way, we have engaged in the process of sending a message to the disabled that [...]
Engaging the Issue
December 29th, 2010 admin 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, [...]
The Silent Watchman
December 29th, 2010 admin “Son of Man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me: When I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save [...]
