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December 2009

SOME THINGS ARE NOT DEBATEABLE: DIANA WEST

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1178/Some-Things-Arent-Debateable.aspx Some Things Aren’t Debateable Written by: Diana West Hey, Arlington educators: Debate this! — The story below is typical of what happens, as I argue in The Death of the Grown-Up, in a society when there are no boundaries: Nothing is beyond the pale. Fortunately, not absolutely everyone agrees. Bravo to the citizen who […]

TOTALITARIAN SENTIMENTALITY: ROGER SCRUTON

THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE Totalitarian Sentimentality By Roger Scruton from the December 2009-January 2010 issue Conservatives recognize that social order is hard to achieve and easy to destroy, that it is held in place by discipline and sacrifice, and that the indulgence of criminality and vice is not an act of kindness but an injustice […]