Dalrymple, Burgess and A Clockwork Britain January 22

Category: Cultures and Ethics By: KJB | 0 comments

Theodore Dalrymple (whom I recommended in a previous post) has written an unnerving piece on life in Britain. He keys the essay off of Anthony Burgess’s controversial novel, A Clockwork Orange. In, “Oh to Be in England: A Prophetic and Violent Materpiece,” Dalrymple escorts us through the erie story line of the novel Burgess most disliked, and then brings it to enlighten the ways and means of a significant faction of youth culture in Britain (some of which we’ve witnessed). (more…)

It’s the Demography, Stupid! January 6

Category: Cultures and Ethics, For the Family By: KJB | 0 comments

Mark Steyn’s at it again!”The Real Reason Why the West Is in Danger,” is the subtitle for Steyn’s recent piece in the Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Page, Opinion Journal. “The design flaw of the secular social-democratic state is that it requires a religious-society birthrate to sustain it. Post-Christian hyperrationalism is, in the objective sense, a lot less rational than Catholicism or Mormonism.”

Ouch! But isn’t that the truth? (more…)