It’s more or less 6:30pm in Baghdad, unless I’m very much mistaken, and the sun’s been down for twenty minutes or so. It looks like there may be war before dawn. Or maybe tomorrow – same bagh-time, same bagh-channel. I…
3. The superiority of liberty to equality in the hierarchy of human values and social purposes. This is a very tricky one. Of course, most of them are tricky, as is most serious thought. Does that mean Your Humble Blogger…
In Which Your Humble Blogger links to a story about a talking fish.
According to a recent Gallup Organization poll, more than half of young men think it is very likely or somewhat likely that someday they will be rich. Individually, I mean, not that they will all be rich. I’ll start over….
A correspondent has written to call Your Humble Blogger on some rhetorical sloppiness in my comment on the Second Conservative Tenet. I could plead that I simply passed along Mr. Rossiter’s sloppiness, but in fact, if I don’t at least…
Michael Walzer wrote, in 1992, (Walzer, Michael, But Was it Just?: Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War, “Justice and Injustice in the Gulf War”, pp. 1 – 17, edited by David E. DeCosse, New York: Doubleday ©…
It seems that Your Humble Blogger’s earlier comment was, in fact wrong, and that there is a trend. Commence with the abuse. Thank you,-Vardibidian….
One of my correspondents, and doesn’t that phrase just roll trippingly off Your Humble Blogger’s keyboard, writes: “Question sparked by Conservative Tenet #2: Is love always about accidents of history? If love for another person isn’t based on any…
Semi-catastrophic computer failure has reduced Your Humble Blogger to a shell of his former shell. If I can’t make some sort of order out of the Microsoft tohu bohu currently inside the box, I will not be posting any reasonable…
2. The natural inequality of men, except in the equal possession of a precious soul and inviolable personality Hoo-hah. Natural inequality of men. And women, too, I suppose. And the trouble is, I’m in agreement with Mr. Rossiter’s Conservative on…