Monthly Archives: May 2011

Decline of the West

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Writing over on the Corner, I’ve put up a few posts on the hand-wringing in Europe over the allegedly unseemly American response to the death of bin Laden, not to speak of the (manufactured) outrage over the the failure to … Continue reading →

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Trouble in the Asylum?

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Via the Guardian: Close allies of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali … Continue reading →

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Too much of a good thing

Posted on May 7, 2011 by David Hume

There was a time when a modicum of corpulence was a signifier of a life relative leisure and comfort. Not so in our day and age. Rather, in the United States and many other nations corpulence is a signifier of … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Mr Hume!

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Bradlaugh

The Great Empiricist was born 300 years ago this weekend (May 7, 1711, N.S.)

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Which universities send traffic to Secular Right

Posted on May 5, 2011 by David Hume

Over at one of my other weblogs I looked at university traffic. So I wanted to check Secular Right. The blog’s been around for over 2 years now, and here are the universities which sent more than 500 visitors:  

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Meaning

Posted on May 5, 2011 by David Hume

The last post: Here it is. I’m dead, and this is my last post to my blog. In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down from the punishments of my cancer, then my family and friends publish … Continue reading →

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Your Ancestors Were Zombies

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Bradlaugh

At a gathering the other day I mentioned Julian Jaynes, who caused a stir back in the 1970s with a very odd book about religion and human consciousness. Roger Kimball was present.  He later forwarded to me an essay on … Continue reading →

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The emerging counternarrative

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

John Yoo claims that Obama ordered the killing rather than capture of OBL in order to avoid having to make hard decisions regarding his detention and interrogation: Mr. Obama’s policies now differ from their Bush counterparts mainly on the issue … Continue reading →

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Western vs. Moderate Muslims

Posted on May 3, 2011 by David Hume

Since 9/11 the term “moderate Muslim” has been a catchall for Muslims-who-aren’t-bad in the everyday parlance of the USA. But the term is only marginally useful. First, there is a huge range in the term “moderate Muslim”. Some non-violent moderate … Continue reading →

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What will Rush say?

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

And Mark Levin and Sean Hannity.  Their dilemma is acute:  how acknowledge the accomplishment of their decade-long desideratum–the killing of Osama Bin Laden–without giving Obama credit?  Arguably, Obama doesn’t deserve credit: he is the beneficiary of the continuous workings of … Continue reading →

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