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Daily Blogs for 7/2007
by Christopher Chantrill
The Surge is Working, But... | 07/31/07
It’s pretty clear that the “surge” in Iraq is making progress. And as ...
Debating YouTube | 07/30/07
Should Republican presidential candidates descend to the level of YouTube? ...
Alarm bells on China | 07/30/07
Classical liberals thought that they had won the argument over free trade back in the ...
"Can I Help You?" | 07/27/07
It’s a Gilded Age, writes ...
Mean-spirited Universities Sit on Cash | 07/27/07
Our Democratic friends in the House of Representatives recently passed an education ...
The Cruelty of the Welfare State | 07/26/07
Everyone knows that the welfare state is the most wonderful thing in human ...
Grabbing The High Ground | 07/25/07
Back in the old days before the French Revolution the world was a conservative place. ...
British Conservatives in a Pickle | 07/25/07
In Britain they are trying to dry out after 50 year floods. But in the ...
The Secret Life of Cars | 07/24/07
You may not have wondered how a car makes you feel, but BMW has. That’s what ...
Democrats' New War on Poverty(1) | 07/24/07
Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and John Edwards both want to declare ...
The "New Victorians:" a Trend or a "Trend?" | 07/23/07
It would all seem pretty sensible if it weren’t that the trendy New York Observer’s ...
Dean Barnett's 9/11 Generation | 07/23/07
We know all about the Boomer generation, says 40-ish ...
What Do Women Want? | 07/20/07
The feminists don’t want to hear it, according ...
When the US Leaves Iraq | 07/20/07
Call me a conspiracist, but I believe that US political class has already decided to ...
Eating beef 'is less green than driving' | 07/19/07
They’re coming to take you away, those lefty global warming types, those ...
Dem House Solves College Costs With Subsidies and Regulation | 07/19/07
With college costs soaring way above the rate of inflation and many graduates finding ...
Who Is Norman Borlaug? | 07/18/07
Everybody knows Paris Hilton. But who the heck is Dr. Norman Borlaug? ...
The Not-so All-Night Debate on Iraq | 07/18/07
The United States Senate is the world’s greatest deliberative body, and last night ...
In the Belly of the Beast | 07/17/07
The reason we need the welfare state, liberals tell us, is because we need a safety ...
It's a Regional War, Stupid | 07/17/07
From the very beginning of the war on terror, it was obvious that the war was not just ...
Germany and France on Collision Course | 07/16/07
The euro has climbed to stratospheric levels in recent months, approaching $1.40 to ...
L.A. Diocese Pays for Abuse | 07/16/07
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay out over $600 million ...
Religion is Safe With Democrats Says TIME | 07/13/07
For years Democrats have warned that religion and politics don’t mix. You’d ...
Working Moms Want to Cut Back on Work | 07/12/07
Woman, we know, is the “victim of the species.” That’s what Simone de Beauvoir, ...
Hewitt Talks to Republican Jews | 07/12/07
Conservative talk-show host talked to the Republican Jewish Coalition recently, ...
Global Warming and Solar Heating | 07/11/07
Who do you believe? Today there were two articles on the relation between solar ...
The End of the Newspaper Columnist | 07/10/07
About twelve years ago, according to ...
British Conservatives Issue Plan To Fight Social Breakdown | 07/10/07
It’s called Breakthrough Britain and ...
Keeper of the Tower Lives in France | 07/09/07
Is this what Britain has come to? The chap who keeps an eye on the crown jewels ...
Now The Lawyers are Upset | 07/09/07
The Brits are just waking up to the idea that lawyers are miserable. Apparently ...
The Underclass As Residue of Social Mobility | 07/06/07
Most of us like to write about the underclass as a failure of the welfare state. ...
The Real David Halberstam(1) | 07/06/07
For what seems like forever we have been taught to celebrate David Halberstam as ...
Is Government Force? Michael Moore Says No | 07/05/07
We all know, or at least we’d better know by now, that Michael Moore thinks that ...
Don't The Pols Get It? | 07/05/07
Now that the Democrats are back in control of Congress we are hearing calls for ...
Arnold Kling on Trust in Society | 07/04/07
The big problem of the human race is the problem of extending trust beyond blood ...
BBC Scare Quotes for Climate 'Scepticism' | 07/04/07
It’s truly amazing, when you think about it, that after all the scare stories and ...
The Broken Society in Germany | 07/03/07
Yes, yes. For decades we have been worrying about little girls in ...
A Father Speaks | 07/02/07
In these diverse postmodern days what should a father do? The father of teenaged ...
Steyn on Immigration and the "Pork-filled Rooms" | 07/02/07
How does he do it? We are talking ...
Chappies
“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie
that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.”
—Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
Hugo on Genius
“Tear down theory, poetic systems… No more rules, no more models… Genius conjures up
rather than learns… ” —Victor Hugo
César Graña, Bohemian versus Bourgeois
Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
Faith & Purpose
“When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of ages—they seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...”
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990
Conversion
“When we received Christ,” Phil added, “all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.”
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh
Postmodernism
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy
Faith and Politics
As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable...
[1.] protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death; [2.] recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family... [3.] the protection of the right of parents to educate their children.
Pope Benedict XVI, Speech to European Peoples Party, 2006
China and Christianity
At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
Religion, Property, and Family
But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family.
Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Conservatism
Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says ‘we should...’.
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity
Society and State
For [the left] there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance.
David Cameron, Conference Speech 2008
Socialism equals Animism
Imagining that all order is the result of design, socialists
conclude that order must be improvable by better design of some superior mind.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
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