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Daily Blogs for 1/2005
by Christopher Chantrill
A Bold Tax Reform Plan | 01/31/05
Stephen Moore proposes a startlingly ...
Steyn: Let's Worry About the Euro Quagmire | 01/31/05
Now that the Iraqis have decided to give the terrorists the finger, sensitive Mark
Steyn ...
Turner: The Iraq Election in Verse | 01/30/05
Frederick Turner thinks that the Iraq election should be ...
Iraq Election: Handing Out Medals | 01/30/05
After the spectacular turnout in Sundayīs Iraq election, itīs time to name names, as they ...
Steyn: Four More Wars | 01/27/05
While many conservatives are tiring of the War on Terror, Mark Steyn rings down Full ...
More on the New England Vapors | 01/26/05
While Larry Summers completes his re-education course somewhere in New England, George ...
Spengler: Americans Can't Do Tragedy | 01/26/05
You canīt put one over on Spengler. Heīs right there in the front rank complaining that ...
Forming and Breaking Relationships Easily | 01/25/05
No, this is not about divorce. It is about the nature of social relationships generally. ...
Ken Mehlman Lays Down a Marker | 01/24/05
You canīt make it any clearer than this. Ken Mehlman ...
Ankle Biters Get Teeth into Inaugural Speech | 01/24/05
Loyal liberal E.J. Dionne ...
Brit Bobbies Lost Key to Gun Cupboard | 01/22/05
Donīt cancel your British vaction, it was nearly a century ago when London bobbies ...
Brit Pundit Says Don't Count US Out | 01/20/05
A writer from the London Times ...
Bush Supporters Wonder What It Means | 01/20/05
Reagan/Bush speechwriter Peggy Noonan worries that the President has ...
Inaugural Sour Grapes | 01/19/05
For the last couple of weeks Democrats have been complaining about the cost of the Bush ...
Brits on Bush: It ain't over yet | 01/19/05
A Brit at the London Times does a think piece on the Bush inauguration. The U.S. ...
Spengler: Two Cheers for Hypocrisy | 01/18/05
Spenglerīs been taking the odd week off over the holiday season, enraging his world-wide ...
Scorched Earth Won't Work For Democrats | 01/17/05
David Brooks advises Democrats ...
President Bush: "I Assume I'm Right" | 01/17/05
When will the Democrats stop misunderestimating President Bush? Here is the ...
Uncle Ted, The Face of the Democrats | 01/16/05
Boston columnist Don Feder takes apart Ted Kennedy and the Democrats. This is a good ...
The Political Math for Social Security Reform | 01/16/05
Fred Barnes discards the conventional wisdom and tries to figure out how President Bush ...
Sshh! The Deficit is Shrinking! | 01/13/05
While we are all attentively watching Dan Ratherīs rather outré retirement party, ...
Peggy Noonan at Her Finest | 01/12/05
Peggy Noonan—who used to write Dan Ratherīs radio ...
Steyn: Brits are to Blame for Black Homophobia? | 01/10/05
No, Mark Steyn hasnīt gone bonkers. But the earnest Decca Aitkenhead in
The ...
Steyn: Last Week's Boxer Rebellion Means Dems are Losers | 01/09/05
Speaking as a Canadian and resumably entitled to vote in California,
Mark Steyn ...
NYT Trendspotters: Religion is Reviving Worldwide! | 01/09/05
All the Upper West Side is agog this week after the New York Timesīs Laurie ...
What Happened to the Reasonable Man? | 01/06/05
This is a muddy article about ...
What Should Democrats Do? | 01/05/05
Now Peggy Noonan is giving them advice. “The Bush administration has stood for ...
Steyn: Message from Col. Shrapnell | 01/04/05
The men of Battery M send up a barrage of shot and shell against the ...
Spengler: Neocon Gelernter Writes "Utter and Complete Rubbish" | 01/03/05
David Gelernter in Commentary thinks the Puritanism of the founders shaded into modern ...
CEO Deepthink from Drucker | 01/02/05
What is the ...
Steyn: Americans Are Different | 01/01/05
Americans are different; they work more than kindler, gentler Euros. For instance, Mark ...
Racial Discrimination
[T]he way to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis,
Brown II, 349 U. S., at 300301, is to stop assigning students on a racial basis. The way to stop
discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
Roberts, C.J., Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle School District
Churches
[In the] higher Christian churches
they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
Sacrifice
[Every] sacrifice is an act of impurity that pays for a prior act of greater impurity... without its participants having to suffer the full consequences incurred by its predecessor. The punishment is commuted in a process that strangely combines and finesses the deep contradiction between justice and mercy.
Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values
Pentecostalism
Within Pentecostalism the injurious hierarchies of the wider world are abrogated and replaced by a single hierarchy of faith, grace, and the empowerments of the spirit... where groups gather on rafts to take them through the turbulence of the great journey from extensive rural networks to the mega-city and the nuclear family...
David Martin, On Secularization
Conservatism's Holy Grail
What distinguishes true Conservatism from the rest, and from the Blair project, is the belief in more personal freedom and more market freedom, along with less state intervention... The true Third Way is the Holy Grail of Tory politics today - compassion and community without compulsion.
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph
Moral Imperatives of Modern Culture
These emerge out of long-standing moral notions of freedom, benevolence, and the affirmation of ordinary life... I have been sketching a schematic map... [of] the moral sources [of these notions]... the original theistic grounding for these standards... a naturalism of disengaged reason, which in our day takes scientistic forms, and a third family of views which finds its sources in Romantic expressivism, or in one of the modernist successor visions.
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
Drang nach Osten
There was nothing new about the Frankish drive to the east... [let] us recall that the continuance of their rule depended upon regular, successful, predatory warfare.
Richard Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion
Government Expenditure
The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Living Law
The recognition and integration of extralegal property rights [in the Homestead Act] was a key element in the United States becoming the most important market economy and producer of capital in the world.
Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital
German Philosophy
The primary thing to keep in mind about German and Russian thought since
1800 is that it takes for granted that the Cartesian, Lockean or Humean scientific and
philosophical conception of man and nature... has been shown by indisputable evidence to be
inadequate.
F.S.C. Northrop, The Meeting of East and West
Action
The incentive that impels a man to act is always some uneasiness...
But to make a man act [he must have]
the expectation that purposeful behavior has the power to remove
or at least to alleviate the felt uneasiness.
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Holy Families
Revelations cannot be sustained and transformed into successful new religions by lonely prophets... Indeed, new religious movements based on revelations typically are family affairs.
Rodney Stark, Exploring the Religious Life
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