Blue v. Red
The way in which individuals construct an understanding of their societies is what makes it fatal to paint them all with the bold colors of their affiliations: People will be particularly amenable to certain explanations for events around them — whether they’ve been pushed toward prescribed priorities via social clichés, have an economic interest in…
Ever have an educator explain to you that it is important to hear all sides of an argument and to engage the opposition in dialogue? Well, for many humanities professors, that may be a lesson preached more than practiced: Anyone who needed evidence that the culture wars are far from over could find it here…
I was disappointed to come across this musing from Providence Journal Opinion Page Editor Bob Whitcomb (via RI Future): Why do right-wing radio talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh do so well and liberal ones not so well? Consider that Colin McEnroe, a rude liberal, has just been fired by WTIC in Hartford and that national…
It isn’t my intention, with this post, to gripe about not being included on a list in which we’d be in awkward company, but I do think it worthwhile to point out that Crowley’s “Rhode Island Blog Round Up” probably gives a better sense of the truth than declarations by a man who considers them…
I just came across this bit of economic philosophy from Congressman Barney Frank (D – MA), on 60 Minutes, that contradicts the standard liberal construct (emphasis added): STAHL: But there was never any doubt that Frank himself didn’t want the car companies to go under. What about the idea that, in capitalism, if a company…
Perhaps it’s his lack of children that enables liberal columnist Joel Stein so succinctly to enunciate one of the more damaging failures of philosophy in modern culture: True love is the blind belief that your child is the smartest, cutest, most charming person in the world, one you would gladly die for. The ineluctable consequence…
I don’t know what makes Ian think think this news would “irritate” us: “Crowley to succeed Jerzyk at RI’s Future.” There’s even more reason for optimism in the fact that the RI Left doesn’t understand what a gift to Ocean State conservatives this is.
And now for an opportunity for Northeastern conservatives to nod in a knowing fashion: … just before the election, [14-year-old Illinois student] Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive…
Of course, we can’t tar a social movement with the acts of a few, but at some point, the volume of incidents bespeaks a mindset. One assaulted immigrant may not suffice. One elderly woman mobbed and forced to watch as her cross is stomped may still fall short. I wonder, though, how many vandalized churches…
Clearly, this 67-year-old woman was inciting the peaceful crowd to violence. Too bad the police weren’t there to arrest her! (Video of the aftermath, and the original incident from a different angle here.)
