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Author: Henry George
Understanding Hitler’s Worldview (Part II)
“The risk in our increasingly polarized and tribally divided times is that these societies —ours among them—are thrashing around in a sea of hopeless liquid modernity and risk coming apart in a storm of violence.”
What Notre Dame Says about Civilization
“The destruction of Notre Dame has shaken our complacent belief in the permanence of things and the ability for our culture to last without care and cultivation. It reveals and reminds us that life is a fragile thing, and even the strongest bastions dedicated to the eternal can still be brought down.”
Understanding Hitler’s Worldview (Part I)
“[Werner Catel] called for the continuation of the Nazi program of involuntary euthanasia, saying, “…We are not talking about humans here, but rather beings that were merely procreated by humans and that will never themselves become humans endowed with reason or a soul.”
Jordan Peterson and Christianity (Part II): Culture and Immortality
“In our lifetimes, many populations in Europe will age and shrink drastically due to their lack of belief in the possibility of transcending death, a belief that undergirds culture.”
In Further Defense of Nations: A Response to McManus
“As such, quiet gratitude rather than arrogant pride is, I believe, the right attitude to take towards the idea of the nation.”
Jordan Peterson and Christianity: Doctrine and Truth (Part I)
“Like Pelagius, Peterson thinks we can achieve salvation through our own efforts of will, without the grace of God. Like the aforementioned Gnostics, Peterson repeatedly argues that we each have a spark of the divine in us, so can manifest the divine here and now in our damned world of suffering.”
The Need for Nations
“It may sound trite to say so, but the national state is the worst way of arranging and governing human societies, apart from all the others.”
Edward Said: Bad Scholar and Bad Character
“Changing the meanings of previously understood words is what ideologues do.”
What Howard Zinn Forgets
“No one people, nation or culture has a monopoly on the shadows of human nature. Historians influenced by Zinn and the story he tells should try to remember this.”
Is Steven Pinker Wrong About Violence Declining?
“In many parts of the world, the anarchy came, and those like Pinker who insist otherwise should reflect on whether their claims really reflect reality, or whether they are simply bromides used by those thought-leaders who see the horror and turn away, looking to statistics as consolation against the tragedy.“
Where the Alt-Right Really Comes From
“As Ross Douthat says, you may have hated the religious Right but wait until you see the post-religious Right.”
A Review of Yoram Hazony’s “The Virtue of Nationalism”
“David Ben-Gurion, on the other hand, embodies the opposite view to that of the EU. Auschwitz was possible because there was one nation not in existence: Israel.”
Jordan Peterson and Living with My Disability
This article is more personal. I have some experience with Peterson’s description of suffering, and I believe that what he says is right.
What They Don’t Tell You about Jeremy Corbyn
“Since the days of his childhood, Corbyn has been able to engage in his socialist and New Left fantasies, insulated from the catastrophic consequences when they are put into practice.”