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19 Jan 2008, 3:38 pm
Tim Blair, the truly excellent Ozzie blogger who is one of my top-5 daily blog reads - and you should seriously consider him for one of yours, if he isn't already - has cancer. It's one tumour and it hasn't spread, so he ought to be OK, Deo volente, but meantime he's in for serious surgery. Here are some of his thoughts on the subject. Read throught to the end. Really. And keep Tim in your thoughts and/or prayers. Refuah… [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 2:55 am
On a happier anniversary note, I ventured out to dinner last night in the not-so-mini mini-mall that serves as a Little India in the San Diego area - and arrived to find a huge crowd converging on the scene. Scarcely a parking space anywhere within a mile's radius. This weekend is Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, and there were many hundreds, possibly thousands, of Indians from the San Diego area, all milling around and happily enjoying Diwali celebrations throughout the… [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 10:48 pm
Passover and Holy Week are a good time to pay attention to how Jews and Christians are thinking about each other. Irving Greenberg is an exceptionally interesting Orthodox Jewish theologian and intellectual, although he is known in the Jewish world for highly unorthodox Orhtodoxy. His recent book "For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity" suggests that Jews should certainly consider Christianity an authentic covenant:… [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 12:40 am
VDH sums it up: Two parties, left and right, are central to good consensual government — one the perennial check on the other, both within the general boundaries of constitutional free-market capitalism. Yet the hard-Left takeover of the Democratic Party has meant that there is no longer a credible balance in our system, as almost all the tenets of contemporary left-wing ideology are blowing up, imploding super nova style — unsustainable ideas that are contrary to human nature and demand… [read post]
22 May 2011, 1:16 am
First Things has published a fascinating piece about the monk and mystic Thomas Merton and his relation to Buddhism. The article is by William Theodore de Bary, who knew Merton as an undergraduate at Columbia in the late 1930s. de Bary himself has had a long career in Asian Studies at Columbia: I remember him as a formidable character on campus when I was at Columbia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now older than 90, de Bary is still teaching at Columbia. The article is interesting in lots of… [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 1:52 am
Very interesting piece by Sam Schulman in the Weekly Standard, drawing parallels between the pro-censorship "anti-hate-speech" phenomenon in the Western world today and the gag laws against abolitionists in pre-Civil War America, and also the 19th century blasphemy laws in British India whose successor statutes are used for persecution (sometimes for judicial murder) in Pakistan today. [T]he notion that speech could be limited in a benevolent way has a history... and in two little-known… [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 12:14 am
The usual disillusioned phrase is "mainstream media" or MSM. The problem, of course, is not mainstream-hood. Angrily talking about the "state-run media" is even more misguided: the media were anything but state-run, or state-sympathetic, when Bush was president; and Republican or conservative officials or judges can expect relentless hostility now as much as ever. What we have is One-Party Media: newspapers, broadcast networks, newsmagazines which represent the views and… [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 8:52 am
The Powerline guys sum it up rightly - here is their post in full: Arrogance, Corruption, Stupidity Republicans didn't have the votes to stop the Senate's Obamacare bill this morning. But they had the better argument. Oklahoma's magnificent Senator (and Dr.) Tom Coburn spoke for a lot of us in explaining his vote against the Democrats' bill: This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of… [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 2:30 am
Just a few of the thoughts that Bill Buckley's life and death are conjuring up: Myron Magnet in the indispensable City Journal (Magnet was its long-time editor):When I saw a headline a few months ago, A WORLD WITHOUT BILL BUCKLEY, my blood ran cold. A smaller, drabber world indeed, I thought. The appropriately adulatory text (a book review, as I recall) calmed me down, but anyone who had seen Bill recently knew that the smaller, drabber world was at hand. From first hearing him speak at my… [read post]
20 Nov 2007, 2:05 am
Hugo Chavez is consolidating his thuggish dictatorship in Venezuela. There will soon be a "referendum" - conducted at gunpoint - on a new Constitution that will make Chavez President-for-Life. Ed Morrissey ("Captain Ed") rightly asks, "Where's the outcry?"What will this referendum do that hasn't already been done by Chavez and his handpicked parliament? After all, he already has the right to rule by decree. Chavez… [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 2:34 am
Columbia President Lee Bollinger's introduction - and criticism - of Ahmedinejad was fairly tough, and in some other context would have been admirable. But it's not what Iranians will hear about from their country's media. As Ed Morrissey reports, the Iranian media never mention Bollinger by name. Nor do the Iranian people ever hear that Bollinger called him a 'petty and cruel dictator'. What they have heard is that Americans gave him a standing ovation,… [read post]
14 May 2012, 3:25 am
Here is a very interesting piece by Francis Fukuyama on the politics and culture of "clientelism", which is what there is in Greece, but not in Germany: Clientelism occurs when political parties use public resources, and particularly government offices, as a means of rewarding political supporters. Politicians provide not programmatic public policies, but individual benefits like a job in the post office, an intervention on behalf of a relative in trouble with the government, or sometimes… [read post]
22 Jan 2011, 8:25 pm
Instapundit links to this post at CollegeScholarships.org on student loans: the atrocious terms and conditions, and especially the systematic stripping away, by law, of all the protections and safeguards that the law provides to all other borrowers and debtors. Read the whole thing. (It's in simple, cartoon flow-chart form.) I have written (for instance here) about whether law schools are being fair to law students, and whether today's costs for law school are sustainable (no, I don't… [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 11:04 pm
Hugh Hewitt on last week's Obama press conference: Wednesday's press conference may have starred President Obama fresh off his alleged big win on START and DADT, his losses on the Dream Act and the Omnibus spending bill, and the tie on the tax deal, but the big story was the eagerness of the White House Press Corp to revert to fawning treatment of their once-and-future leader. And concluding: Wednesday's press conference featured the return of the media we saw throughout campaign 2008… [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 1:49 am
Enoch Powell's reaction to Tony Blair's (and New Labour's) election in 1997 was "They have voted to break up the United Kingdom". Now David Runciman writes a fascinating piece suggesting that, well, last month's election in Britain really might mean the end of the United Kingdom. Runciman's piece is in the London Review of Books, which is usually numb with leftism (and obsessively anti-sem..., um, "anti-Zionist"). But this is a shrewd, witty, and all too… [read post]
7 May 2010, 12:57 am
A maddeningly inconclusive result to Thursday's general election in England. The Conservatives won far more votes, and seats in Parliament, than any other party; Labour lost oodles of seats; the Liberal Democrats failed to gain seats and may have lost a seat or two. But the Conservatives failed to win an absolute majority of seats. (Here is the BBC election website.) The Liberal Democrats are the successors to the old Liberal Party, which was once a centrist -… [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 1:10 am
The Washington Post reports ongoing claims for reparation by the descendants of Jewish families who were expropriated - robbed - of their property by the Nazis. The Post story is about Germany, although there are similar claims, usually dealt with much less sympathetically, in Austria, Poland, France, even Switzerland, where the banks fenced Nazi loot during the war. The Post story alludes to surviving slave workers in Nazi camps, now very elderly, who don't have enough to live on… [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 12:44 am
An American in the Gulag. Moiseyev of the Moiseyev Ballet. Churchill's wartime secretary. [read post]
16 Nov 2007, 1:16 am
On a more hopeful note about campus life, a friend who is a first year undergraduate at a major midwestern state university reports on her Irish history class: a rigorous class with a wide-ranging and sophisticated reading list and a professor who "strives to be scrupulously fair to all the bitterly contending sides". Despite - or because of? - the professor's intellectual seriousness and integrity, his classes are always oversubscribed. Here are two questions from… [read post]
1 Feb 2020, 4:47 pm
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