Culture
Two well-placed articles — by virtue of their proximity to each other — in the September 21 National Review point to a necessary conclusion for a modern conservative political philosophy. The first item is an interior quotation by American Medical Association lobbyist William Woodward within a book review by Kyle Smith (emphasis added): The trouble…
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The Mojave Cross boxed in plywood so as not to offend may be the perfect symbol of tyrannical multiculturalism. Erected 75 years ago in memory of the nation’s World War I casualties — and with strong visual correlation with the plain crosses that have a long cultural pedigree along roads — the cross has been…
Noon, Monday, by the flagpole on Brown University’s Main Green. Organized by WPRO’s John DePetro, the Brown Spectator and the Brown College Republicans. From John DePetro’s press release. … the decision by the faculty at Brown University to change the name of the Columbus Day holiday is “a tremendous insult to all Italian-Americans.” DePetro said…
Ah, the not-so-rich tapestry of multiculturalism: “We’re supposed to be the most multicultural city in the world and it doesn’t seem terribly inclusive,” Denny Alexander explained. It, as it turns out, is ten-year-old playground equipment found in two parks in the west end of Toronto. The offending objects depict the biblical story of Noah’s Ark,…
Callers to Dan Yorke’s show, after the exchanges with both Megan Andelloux and Donna Hughes were particularly incensed by the latter’s referring to the former as a “prostitute.” What Hughes meant (and said that she meant) was Andelloux’s sideline as a “foot fetish model.” A 2008 Providence Phoenix article about her offers the description that…
Instapundit’s been following liberal (and especially entertainment elite) support for Roman Polanksi, notably in this post. Each celebrity who signs on to the “Free Roman” cause of the week should be asked to read the court documents describing the rape for which he’s wanted. There’s simply no excuse, and evading the law for decades doesn’t…
As we slide into autumn, with the sensations and associations that it brings, Michael Ledeen’s musing on the relationship between the living and the dead in Naples seems more relevant now than it did in the summer edition of First Things. He makes some very interesting points, which resonate with greater strength as the trees…
Like Justin, I read Michael Knox Beran’s piece about the loss of the marketplace (the agora) with interest. Beran contrasted the emptying agora (the town square or marketplace) with the filling up of castles both old and new built. Beran points to an upper class culture striven for by the modern day aristocrats (czars and…
Michael Knox Beran raises, to my mind, a cultural reality that conservatives would do well to address when he describes the effects that losing the local marketplace (the agora) has had: No civilization, even the most bovine, can entirely do without this cathartic machinery. Aristotle credited the poetry of the agora with forming the character…
