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Levant vs. Soharwardy
The infamous case of Ezra Levant takes a new twist. Levant, as you will recall, was the subject of a Canadian human rights complaint filed by Syed Soharwardy because, in 2005, Levant published the...
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Quotation of the Day
Hate speech IS free speech. Leftists would be almost completely muzzled otherwise. John Ray, at Tongue Tied 3
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Wrong for the Wrong Reasons
When in search of provocative material, I often flip through the pages of The Great Quotations — a left-slanted tome compiled by the late and long-lived George Seldes. Today, I came across this:...
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Not-So-Random Thoughts (XII)
Links to the other posts in this occasional series may be found at “Favorite Posts,” just below the list of topics. * * * “Intolerance as Illiberalism” by Kim R. Holmes (The Public Discourse,...
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The Gaystapo and Islam
Politics, as usual, makes strange bedfellows. The Gaystapo — which includes a lot of non-gays — wants to punish anyone who declines to endorse same-sex “marriage” by providing such things as flowers,...
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Academic Ignorance
When I was a senior at Michigan State University in 1961-1962, I became a research assistant in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations. The school invited graduate students from other countries...
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Privilege, Power, and Hypocrisy
The Almighty is not a liberal… The Almighty is the driving force for the entire universe and the universe is not a very liberal place. That is what the modern world seems not to understand…. Simon...
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The Beginning of the End of Liberty in America
SEVERAL ITEMS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE LIST OF RELATED READINGS SINCE THE INITIAL PUBLICATION OF THIS POST ON 06/26/15 Winston Churchill, speaking in November 1942 about the victory of the Allies in the...
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The Tenor of the Times
Below are some links that I’ve collected about the culture war, political correctness, political hypocrisy, and other disturbing features of the contemporary scene. I don’t agree with everything said...
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Defending the Offensive
An image of the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia is displayed prominently in the sidebar of this blog. I do not display the flag to defend it, as one reader suggested. As it says under the...
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A Summing Up
I started blogging in the late 1990s with a home page that I dubbed Liberty Corner (reconstructed here). I maintained the home page until 2000. When the urge to resume blogging became irresistible in...
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Politics & Prosperity in Print
I am drawing on my best posts (see “A Summing Up“) to produce a series called Dispatches from the Fifth Circle. The first volume — Leftism, Political Correctness, and Other Lunacies — is available at...
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Society, Polarization, and Dissent
One definition of liberty is the “right or power to act as one chooses.” This seems to be the usual view of the matter. But it should be obvious that liberty depends on restraint. Acting as one chooses...
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How America Has Changed
I believe that the morals and the mores of a populace change observably over time. That’s certainly true of Americans, even if it isn’t true of, say, many tribal peoples of distant lands. This post...
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Dissension at the Heterodox Academy?
A new site called Professor Watchlist has sprung up. Its mission is to expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values, and advance...
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Freedom of Speech and the Long War for Constitutional Governance
Freedom of speech is at the heart of the war between the friends and enemies of liberty. The Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of speech is misunderstood. The social order that underlies liberty has...
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Roundup: Civil War, Solitude, Transgenderism, Academic Enemies, and Immigration
Civil War II Are Americans really in the midst of Civil War II or a Cold Civil War? It has seemed that way for many years. I have written about it in “A New (Cold) Civil War or Secession?”, “The...
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Libertarianism, Conservatism, and Political Correctness
Why do conservatives and libertarians generally eschew political correctness? Because we take individual persons as they come, and evaluate each them on his merits. That is to say, we reject...
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Racism on Parade
There has been much ado about an article by lawprofs Amy Wax (University of Pennsylvania) and Larry Alexander (University of San Diego), “Paying the Price for the Breakdown of the Country’s Bourgeois...
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Recommended Reading
Leftism, Political Correctness, and Other Lunacies (Dispatches from the Fifth Circle Book 1) On Liberty: Impossible Dreams, Utopian Schemes (Dispatches from the Fifth Circle Book 2) We the People...
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