Category: Decline of the West
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W. H. Auden, “September 1, 1939”
Full text.
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Gerontocracy, Paedocracy, Xenocracy
Are the first two, in cahoots, pushing us toward the third? Run with it, bloggers! Here, Thomas Sowell does a number on our favorite paedocrat.
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High Culture under the Joey B Administration
Enjoy!
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The Joshua Hochschild Affair
The Decline of the West proceeds apace as leftists infiltrate all of our institutions. The universities, for example, have devolved into leftist seminaries in which groupthink reigns and the traditional purposes of the university have been forgotten. Large numbers of contemporary collegians seem to have no appreciation of the classical values of open inquiry and…
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As the World Grows Dark
The darkening of the world has this advantage: it inspires us to seek for light where it is more likely to be found.
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Hospitals and Torture Chambers
We are strangely, insanely, conflicted. We care lovingly, or at least dutifully, for the sick, the injured, and the dying. But we also torture people to death in ways that inspire envy in demons. The belief that humans are inherently good is one of the deepest of human delusions. Paradoxically, those who succumb to it…
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The Political Equivalent of Divorce?
You've heard me say that we need to find the political equivalent of divorce if we are to reduce the animosity that threatens to destroy us as a nation. But the marital analogy limps badly. Although I don't think much of Damon Linker, he talks sense here: Part of me gravitates to a fantasy of…
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There Have Always Been Crises
My wife just now handed me a book from her library, one that I had read in the '70s, but had forgotten, The Pursuit of Loneliness by Philip Slater. It was published in 1970 by the Beacon Press (Boston). It bears the subtitle, "American Culture at the Breaking Point." Somehow we didn't break: here we…
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La Decadenza
Dr. Vito Caiati writes: Relevant to your post “The ‘Catholic’ ‘Universities’ Have Become Jokes: Fordham,” I call your attention to an interview by Marco Tossati of Archbishop Viganò, defender of the faith, on the evil that permeates the Bergoglian regime and the much of the Church, the “three elements” of which the latter characterizes as…
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Protesters?
BLM and Antifa members are 'protesters' in the same sense in which Rodney King was a 'motorist,' Trayvon Martin was 'a child on the way to the candy store,' Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri was an 'unarmed teenager,' and Adolf Hitler was a 'statesman.'
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What Black Lives Matter and Antifa are About
Matt Rowe (Headings added): Black Lives Matter: Marxist to the Core The three co-founders of BLM are Marxists to the core. According to the Capital Research Center, all three worked for front groups of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, one of the largest radical Left organizations in the country. Opal Tometi actively promotes Socialism and…
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Democrat-Run Cities: The Case for Letting them Burn to the Ground
Marc Thiessen presents, without endorsing, the case for allowing the social experiment in lawlessness to proceed: Trump declared that enough is enough and that he and Attorney General William P. Barr will soon unveil a plan to “to straighten things out.” But maybe he shouldn’t. The genius of our federal system is that states and localities serve…
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Christianity and Politics
The Christian who sees politics with worldly eyes must support Donald J. Trump. The Christian who doesn't must withdraw from the fight and turn the other cheek even if it means getting slaughtered, just as Jesus allowed himself to be slaughtered. But the apolitical Christians won't be slaughtered right away. They will first have to…
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What We are Up Against
It helps to know the enemy and not be as naive as a Mona Charen. Despite her manifold lovelinesses and virtues, Charen is a useful idiot for the Left and a useless idiot for us. (She is what I call a 'topical idiot'; she is obviously not a total idiot. And while I am abusing…
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The Democrat Agenda
Open the borders; empty the prisons; empower the criminal; violate the the rights of the law-abiding; erase history and heritage and hard-won wisdom. Above all: Destroy language so that no one can coherently think or speak about the destructive Democrat agenda.