Periodic Musings

Entries from May 14, 2006 - May 20, 2006
Lasch: "What's Wrong With The Right?"
"The idea of a 'left' has outlived its historical time and needs to be decently buried, along with the false conservatism that merely clothes an older liberal tradition in conservative rhetoric. The old labels have no meaning anymore. They can only confuse debate instead of clarifying it. They are products of an earlier era, the age of steam and steel, and are wholly inadequate to the age of electronics, totalitarianism, and mass culture. Let us say good-bye to these old friends, fondly but firmly, and look elsewhere for guidance and moral support."
http://thor.clark.edu/sengland/previous%20features/a_dialogue_with_christopher_lasc.htm
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Europe's Two Culture Wars.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12105031_1
America is, of course, fighting the same wars, except that Islamic culture does not have the foothold here that it does in Europe. However, we are tasked to fight yet a third culture war, the war against the reconquista of the American Southwest. Fun times ahead.
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