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Archive of posts published in the category: Culture

The Racism of the Intelligentsia

There is something, evidently, in the human mind, even when carefully honed at Oxford or the Sorbonne, that hesitates to believe in capitalism: in the enriching mysteries of inequality, the inexhaustible mines of the division of labor, the multiplying miracles

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Avenue for Bad Behavior

“They’ll condemn the pope for the silliness of organized religion, but then later they tell us we should understand those who—in the name of religion—want to kill us. They’ll order us to “question authority,” then they’ll parrot the latest left-wing

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Human Drones

From Daniel Greenfield in the Sultan Knish, The Dreaded Drone, 3/11/13 Excerpt: We aren’t dealing with fascism, we’re dealing with bureaucratic collectivism. Rather than a militarized society, what we have is a socialized society. The people who run it don’t

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Selective Outrage

“How funny is it that gay activists stay away from black churches; it’s the same hypocrisy you see with the animal rights group PETA. They’ll throw paint on a white guy wearing ostrich boots, but they’d never do that to

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Why Poverty Persists

Ralph Reiland writes A Key Economic Lesson in American Spectator, 1/2/13 Excerpts:  In 2012, “the federal government will spend more than $668 billion on at least 126 different programs to fight poverty,” in addition to “welfare spending by state and

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A Historical Hostility to Wealth

One of the little probed mysteries of social history is society’s hostility to its greatest benefactors, the producers of wealth.  On every continent and in every epoch the people who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of

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The Destruction of Judgment

Jonah Goldberg writes Symptoms of a Sick Culture in Townhall, 7/6/12. Excerpts: Two days before the Fourth of July, Lopez was fired for helping rescue a man drowning 1,500 feet outside of his designated zone. “It was a long run,

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Economics and Culture

Victor Davis Hanson writes Culture Still Matters in The National Review 5/31/12. Excerpt: But government-driven efforts to change national behavior often ignore stubborn cultural differences that reflect centuries of complex history as well as ancient habits and adaptations to geography

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Cultural Correlations

A few weeks ago I posted an article on the Rebel Yid Facebook Page by local columnist Charles Richardson, Tripping Over Stereotypes.  It addressed a comment from Rick Santorum that assumed that most welfare recipients were black, even in Iowa

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The Victims of the Post Prejudice Era

Those that have identified themselves in their fight against racism, sexism, and prejudice have become victims of their own success. Young blacks are better educated and getting better jobs and have not grown up to news reels of black protesters

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Selective Indignation

U.S. journalists, economists, an political figures rarely express indignation about the super-high incomes of anyone except corporate executives.  Scarcely anyone professes outrage about Forbes list of the twenty best-paid  actors, who average $23 million apiece in 2005. U.S. business magazines

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Conspiracy Theories

Mistakes are undramatic. We all make them, but many would prefer the drama of sinister motives and conspiracy theories  to the realities of bad judgment and human error. It makes for better headlines and fodder for book titles. Conspiracy theories

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Communication Inundation

According to the July 26, 2010 print version of Newsweek: There are 141 million active blogs, up from a mere 12,000 ten years ago. Daily e-mails are up 20 fold from 12 to 247 billion in the same period. Daily

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Arbitrary Alliances

“If you want to see what I mean by arbitrariness of categories, check the situation of polarized politics.  The next time a Marian visits earth, try to explain to him why who those favor allowing the elimination of a fetus

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The Source of America’s Economic Strength

“Whenever you hear a snotty (and frustrated) European middlebrow presenting his stereotypes about Americans, he will often describe them as “uncultured,” “unintellectual,” and “poor in math” because, unlike his peers, Americans are not into equation drills and the constructions middlebrows

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Open and Closed Institutions

“I have been part of five institutions- the Catholic Church, The university of Redlands, the United States Navy, The University of Chicago, and Harvard University. If I were required to rank them to the extent to which free and uninhibited

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Thinning the Paint

Carrie O’Connell writes in American Thinker “I am not supposed to exist” . A 26 year pro life Catholic woman, Carrie writes how her profile is totally absent from the collection of media stereotypes either in the news or in

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A Living Rolodex

Facebook has added a whole new dimension to social networking, in fact reinventing it. Like any new media certain protocols develop; like learning not to capitalize all the letters in an e-mail message for fear of appearing loud or angry.

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Slumdog Wins

I was happy to see Slumdog Millionaire win at the Oscars. Besides just being an original and wonderful film, it showed that creativity is not restrained by the lack of big names and big budgets. Ideas and talent can still

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Generous With Other People’s Money

from New York Times December 21, 2008Op-Ed ColumnistBleeding Heart TightwadsBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Excerpts Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet when it comes to individual contributions

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