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My liege.

About two thousand innocents died on 9/11.

Tens of thousands of innocents have died in the wars we have commissioned to redress that greivance.

Is this acceptable? Does it matter that they're not Americans?

This bifurcates into other questions: is war an acceptable response to terrorism? Berry notes in Citizenship Papers that our definition of ( Read more... )

Hipsters have a unique advantage in the modern economy: they can engage in wholesale class warfare against poor people with a totally clear conscience, convinced that their policies are "progressive ( Read more... )

"If you can't explain your position without ending up in the google results of the people you disagree with..."

i.e., you are dependent on those you disagree with for your terminology.

Sure, we unabashedly white people can entertain ourselves almost indefinitely by reading (with suitably supercilious snickers) Cosby's "pound cake" speech or sequestering ourselves in ethnically homogeneous enclaves where seldom is seen a resplendent dental apparatus or a gravity-defying pair of trousers or a meretricious, callipygian musician's ( Read more... )

"Surely," he said, humming with a vaguely evaluative air, "you know of Armavirumque, the blog of The New Criterion?"

Good Lord! He's playing both sides!

Acton Institute -- great website on the links between faith and the markets. Especially exciting in that it attempts to defend free markets from a religiously conscious viewpoint, rather than a secular, classical liberal set of presuppositions.

Michael Novak -- he's the neocon you can't help but love. Also one ( Read more... )

The death penalty is not for the sake of deterring others, not for the satisfaction of the family of the victim, not for society to defend itself, and not so that we can get vengeance. It is for the murderer: until he stands on the brink of his own mortality, he will never be able to understand what it is he has taken away from someone else. ( Read more... )

Slow Food International -- an organization founded in response to the first McDonald's in Italy, Slow Food puts itself forth as the alternative to fast food: food prepared conscientiously using local, seasonal sources of food. Recommended reading: The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Related link: eatwild.com

The Land Institute -- doing ( Read more... )