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 [...]
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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 [...]
Truth will out.
December 29th, 2010 admin Dr. Andrew Bostom, whose persistence, energy and courage gave us The Legacy of Jihad, which is, very simply, the best single resource we have on the doctrine, tradition and history of jihad, delivered a talk recently at James Madison University. And a strange thing happened afterward. It was one of those striking little disclosures, whether [...]
Amish Protests Threaten to Escalate
December 29th, 2010 admin Dear EM colleagues and readers, The satire that follows was written by my husband, Tim. This seemed a good venue for it. Of course, we don’t intend thereby to give the impression that we underestimate the seriousness of the real-life situation. And buried somewhere in here is a serious point. Enjoy. Lancaster, PA — The governor of [...]
