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Why I Focus This Blog On Islamic Terrorism, Among Other Things-A Few Links...
Apparently, not all ‘individual humans’ as defined by Western intellectual traditions and Western secular humanists/idealists see themselves as Westerners do. In spite of the last American...
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Robert Kagan At Brookings: ‘The Twilight Of the Liberal World Order’
Full piece here. The gist: Trump’s apparent defining of America’s interests more narrowly and nationally, transactionally even (quid pro quo), will further re-shuffle a deck already being re-shuffled...
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Via Another Reader-Christopher Caldwell On Europe & Immigration-It’s Much...
Caldwell filters conceptions of how a society should [be] through a Burkean lens.-‘Reflections On The Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam & The West‘ From the Mark Steyn show: There’s a sober...
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More On The Barcelona Terror Attacks-More Of The Same
Via the AP via Reason: 13 dead and more than 50 injured as a truck plows through a crowd along Las Ramblas. Guess which type of characteristics were present in the terrorist? Lawrence Wright discussed...
View ArticleFrom The Mildly Specific To The Wildly General-Three Links On Erdogan’s...
Michael Totten at World Affairs: ‘Turkey Takes Its War Against The Kurds Into Europe‘ At the same time he’s [Erdogan] been rolling up the Gulenists and the deep staters he’s been mounting a...
View ArticleWitnessing The Baleful Capitulations Of Institutional Gatekeepers-Repost-...
Full post here. Reason post here. NY Times piece here. Old news I know, but it seems that the Yale Press was genuinely afraid that publishing this book could potentially lead to violence, and that they...
View ArticleUpdate & Repost: Remembering The Marathon Bombing-Roger Scruton At Forbes: ‘A...
Full piece here. ‘Nevertheless, we cannot simply disregard the evidence, that there are Muslims among us who interpret their religion in another way. The liberal mind-set, which blames their crimes on...
View ArticleRepost-What Would Hitchens Say? Via The NY Times: ‘Six PEN Members Decline...
Such a brave stance to take: Six writers apparently know what is acceptable speech and what isn’t, and thus don’t think the folks at Charlie Hebdo engaged in acceptable speech. Have these six happened...
View ArticleVia UnHerd, A Discussion With Eric Zemmour-Plus Ca Change…
Via UnHerd, Freddie Sayers discusses immigration with Eric Zemmour, French right historian and politician on Islam, Immigration and French politics. One has to disregard pretty much any mainstream...
View ArticleUniversal Enlightenment Truths & Politics In The Academy-Two Links
Theodore Dalrymple at the Library of Law & Liberty: ‘The Impotence Of The Kantian Republic.’ Many proposed Enlightenment universal truths, truths used to make moral claims, and truths often used...
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