Conservative Pessimism from Mark Steyn
A beautiful punchline. “As it’s happening, incremental decline is extremely seductive. Great powers aren’t Chad or Rwanda, where you’re sliding…
A beautiful punchline. “As it’s happening, incremental decline is extremely seductive. Great powers aren’t Chad or Rwanda, where you’re sliding…
Everyone is getting their shot at a Philip Blond point right now: the Brooks column, Deneen and Rod the Bod…
I spent around six hours of my day yesterday sitting in front of two shows. The first was the lavishly…
The rise of a new conservative grass roots fueled by a secular revulsion at government spending is stirring fears among leaders…
“And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their…
The system is broken. So they all tell us. Obama won an election on it, but McCain’s rhetoric was similar….
In most cases, I dislike posts that just quote articles without adding additional value. However, I want to make an…
Kevin Vance On this day in 1836, an assembly of Texians at Washington-on-the-Brazos adopted a document that formally declared independence…
In case you didn’t know already, Dorothy Sayers was brilliant. A theologian and Christian humanist in the era of the…
Dan Drezner writes for Foreign Policy that an apple needs to be called an apple, and a Killer Whale needs…
My commute is too short for novels and too long for just standing around, so I’ve settled on poetry. I…
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Logic is everything we know. In some sense. Ludwig Wittgenstein and logic Ludwig Wittgenstein’s examinations into the where logic can take…
Decade Predictions 1. Republicans in general will not take on much less of religious persona in the ‘10s, but Democrats…
In a forthcoming post on rational behavior, I will describe a dilemma in which the right choice may surprise you. …
By Lauren Bobbitt A few nights ago I joined with most of America to watch President Obama’s State of the…
From Achilles to Obama, men have yearned to achieve immortality through great deeds that would outlive them. The former sought…
A few weeks ago, I got into a discussion with a friend—via Facebook message, of course—about the pros and cons of social media. We have all of the basic conservative, intellectually inclined, Christian, rooted-in-Western-civilization stuff in common, so in general the conversation proceeded along fairly predictable lines.
Social media are problematic because they tend to replace genuine human relationships, which grow out of common experiences and life lived together, with virtual ones, maintained through wall posts and status updates. On the other hand, networking websites like Facebook and Twitter can foster already existing relationships, helping friends and family separated by geography communicate with each other in real time. So social media can be helpful tools, but they need to be used properly; it’s okay to be friends with your mom on Facebook, but it’s not okay if that’s your only interaction with her, et cetera et cetera and so forth. It was an interesting intellectual exercise, but for the most part, we’ve heard this all before.
In the course of the conversation, however, my friend made an almost offhand observation that made me think about the whole problem in a new context.
The Baader-Meinhof Complex is an investigation into the culture of anti-culture, and the psychologies of disintegration and justification. This…