Category Archives: Civilization - Can We Keep It?
Doris Lessing’s Nobel Lecture On not winning the Nobel Prize What has happened to us is an amazing invention, computers and the internet and TV, a revolution. This is not the first revolution we, the human race, has dealt with. The printing revolution, which did not take place in a matter of a few decades, [...]
It’s hard to believe some of these stories out of England and its National Health Service. Nurses Told to Turn Muslims’ Beds to Mecca OVERWORKED nurses have been ordered to stop all medical work five times every day to move Muslim patients’ beds so they face towards Mecca. The lengthy procedure, which also includes providing [...]
Would an advertisement of a tattooed skinhead urinating into a china teacup encourage you to visit London? “It’s fun, it’s supposed to show how cosmopolitan London is. Yes, I really think it says London is cosmopolitan,” insisted a spokeswoman for Eurostar about the ad designed to attract Belgians to hop on the new high-speed train [...]
I think this is rather good news. US thwarts 19 terrorist attacks against America since 9/11. Especially since Islamic terrorists have carried out more than 10,009 deadly terror attacks since that same date, mainly against other Muslims.
Michael Yon, embedded with the troops for the past three years posts this photograph and calls it Thanks and Praise as men and women, both Christian and Muslim, place a cross atop St. John’s Church in Bagdad, a church that had been bombed and burned in 2004 but has since been restored with the cross, [...]
Charles McCarry is one of my favorite writers and his espionage novels are extraordinary. If you haven’t read any of them, you’re in for a treat. The Boston Globe calls him “the best writer of intelligence and political novels in the world.” Many had gone out of print until brought back and republished by the [...]
Ralph Peters believes that too many of us know too little history and so believe whatever’s comfortable. We’ve lived in safety and comfort too long to grasp what war means and instead believe in myths. How many of the 12 Myths about 21st Century War he writes about do you believe because you never really [...]
On over 100 campuses across the country, a large roster of speakers are talking about matters that are not being addressed in women’s studies programs or in Saudi-subsidized Middle Eastern studies departments. Kathryn Lopez interviewed David Horowitz on how he is getting students to listen to the counter-curriculum I begin my speeches by explaining the [...]
So the President of Columbia Lee Bollinger in defending his decision to give a platform and a forum to President Ahmadinejad says he would have invited Adolf Hitler and subjected him to the same ‘sharp challenges’ he plans to give to the Iranian president. In the same week, we’re watching Ken Burns’s documentary on the [...]
John O Sullivan, Social acid has burnt the heart of Britain It didn’t happen overnight. Breaking down a strong culture of civic self-control takes time and several social acids. The first such acid was the cultural liberalism generally associated with the 1960s: the attempt to free people from irksome traditional moral customs and the laws [...]
