https://lawliberty.org/book-review/american-millstone/ A balancing of losses and gains is not enough for the victors, because only a moralized victory that treats them as fully virtuous (or “privileged” but absolved after some modest public abasement) and deserving of their wins will do. Hurts to the wrong sort of people become not matters of regret, but moral imperatives….
Category: As I would be a master, I would be slave.
The Doublethinkers
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/natan-sharansky-doublethink In assessing my own liberation, I recall a conformity that feels terrifyingly familiar today BYNATAN SHARANSKY WITH GIL TROY
American Thinker: Fauci, Cuomo and Postmodern Leadership
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/fauci_cuomo_and_postmodern_leadership.html Postmodern leadership is an oxymoron. The question remains: What is it in our culture that compels us to exalt actors, politicians, and bureaucrats, not based on the virtues they may or may not possess, not based on the contribution of the work they do, but rather on how we feel about them? McIntyre warns…
The Democrats’ War on Blacks
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/the_democrats_war_on_blacks.html
The Washington Post Has Your Guide To Repentance For The Ex-Trumper
https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/15/post-op-ed-if-trump-voters-get-on-their-knees-and-beg-the-left-might-forgive-them/ This is where woke religion goes completely off the rails. One’s sins against wokeness must be understood in the most absurd, hyperbolic language. Catholicism calls such behavior scrupulosity, in which the sinner makes his or her sins into something much greater than they are. The woke examination of conscience and the ridiculous ways in…
Does Anyone Know What “Defund the Police” Really Means?
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2020-8-25-does-anyone-know-what-defund-the-police-really-means If protesters receive their wish to abolish the police, the people most affected will be those we consider to be the most vulnerable in our society: low income families, particularly women and children, and minorities. That is, it will be the people who cannot afford another option. It is no exaggeration to say that…
Against History-as-Nightmare
https://lawliberty.org/against-history-as-nightmare/ The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon