Category Archives: culture

The Retreat from reason (ctd.)

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

The defendant in this case may or may not have lost her senses, the judge that sentenced her clearly has: A young woman who repeatedly stabbed her mother as she slept has walked free from court after a judge accepted … Continue reading →

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Blow Ye The Trumpet in Houston

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

A message from Texas governor, and possible GOP presidential hopeful, Rick Perry: Fellow Americans, Right now, America is in crisis: we have been besieged by financial debt, terrorism, and a multitude of natural disasters. As a nation, we must come … Continue reading →

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Whose Life is it Anyway?

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

There’s been plenty to read on Andrew Sullivan’s blog this week on the question of assisted suicide. Amongst the posts and pieces to which Andrew has linked is this one by the New York Times’s Ross Douthat to which Mother … Continue reading →

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Helping Out

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Bradlaugh

On the general matter of assisted suicide: (1) I couldn’t care less what people with ideological or theological fixations think.  They are entitled to their intellectual pleasures, but they have no right to foist their conclusions on citizens of a … Continue reading →

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Multiculturalism: Christianity (partly) to Blame?

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Getting to grips with the pathologies of multiculturalism is no easy task, but here from the Wall Street Journal is retired (center-right) Dutch politician Frits Bolkenstein having a go. This, in particular, caught my eye: The other foundation of our … Continue reading →

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Kevorkian and All That

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Jack Kevorkian’s death has generated a flurry of commentary on the issues with which he was associated, and, indeed, on his ‘meaning’. To Wesley Smith, writing on the Corner, he was a “dark mirror on society.” I replied here: Wesley, … Continue reading →

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Questioning democralotry

Posted on June 4, 2011 by David Hume

It is an unquestioned truth of the age among “right thinking” people that democracy is the ultimate aim of government. Even authoritarian regimes cloak themselves in the language of democracy, for example the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Those regimes … Continue reading →

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The Arab spring revisited

Posted on May 21, 2011 by David Hume

I was always one skeptical of the “Arab spring.” My skepticism is modulated and qualified. I think Tunisia has the prospects of becoming a normal nation-state to a far greater extent than Libya, for example. But I was of the … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse Postponed

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

The Daily Telegraph’s Damian Thompson (a religious man, incidentally) weighs in here: …I suppose if I had to boil it down to one observation, it would be that just because people say they “believe” that such-and-such a thing will happen … Continue reading →

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Oh Well…

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

On to 2012, I suppose… Via the Daily Telegraph: Inhabitants of New Zealand, scheduled to be among the first to meet the apocalypse according to a US fundamentalist preacher, this morning confirmed they were still in existence as the appointed … Continue reading →

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