Category: navel gazing

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…

Your Humble Blogger posted a list of Beliefs in the Conservative Tradition yesterday, as a prelude to doing some serious thinking about them. This is the first note in a series; I may do each one separately, or do some…