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…
Your Humble Blogger has been terribly cranky over the last week or so. On principle, I try to write a puff piece for every hatchet job, but I expect it will run more like two to one on the bad…
I came across the following, and thought I’d post it up; I’m still thinking about it, and I intend to post my thoughts later. Two things, though, before the excerpt: First, I am not a Conservative, neither in the modern…
I’ve just been reading a fascinating essay by Joseph Epstein, where he takes the view that we have too much information, too much knowledge even, and would be better off with less. I find that view wrongheaded, but have to…
One of my many readers (many? more than two, anyway) writes in response to my note on Our Only President: Is it at all reassuring to think that Our Only President may in fact be a figurehead (e.g. if…