Ironic

England is experiencing massive Catholic immigration.

Survival of the fittest

Many people are not aware that the US had its own age of eugenics.

Self-hatred

Another depressing but brilliant Dalrymple column.

Illiberal

An interesting discussion regarding the growing intolerance of religion among certain "liberal" figures in the US.

"A left-liberal commitment to religious freedom is not something that can be counted
on any more"

That has been one of the most impressive and under-reported cultural shifts in this country over the last decade.

Hegemony

Given that the Atlantic Monthly is a serious magazine not given to right-wing conspiracy theories, it is remarkable they published this.

The road to slavery

It is undeniable that the New York Times stands out today as the media outlet where news are most thoroughly shaped by radical ideology.

Totalitarianism III

From Canada

traditional religious groups essentially must either abandon any religious beliefs that conflict with the ideologies of the state, notably that of radical feminism, or cease to make any claims to special financial considerations for their charitable, non-profit works for the community.

Delusional

Mark Davis on motherhood without fatherhood.

Fear of competition

George Will on school choice and its enemies.

Totalitarianism II

Rowan Williams gets the point:

I think what’s at stake ultimately is whether the church is answerable finally to the State as the only court of appeal or whether the church can rightly appeal to other sources for its moral compass and whatever one’s views on this particular issue.

Totalitarianism

The Church as "the representative of liberty as such."

Nothing

The article by David Cameron, the British Conservative leader, is very symbolic of the time we are living. It means to be a philosophical statement, yet there is not one discernible idea (teaching English to everybody? That's it?). It is obsessed with identity, yet it shows a complete lack of it. In fact, it does not distinguish itself in any way from the opposite political side. When both sides have coalesced into complete cultural vacuum, what's left in democracy?

Hypocrisy

Rather than about spanking, our leaders should worry about Darfur.

Theory and moralism

The spanking controversy is another example of disappearing common sense (in the literal sense: a set of shared judgements based on real-life experience and passed on, often implicitly, from a generation to the next.)

Cold war

An interesting (if accurate) account of some KGB activities re.the Vatican.