The Portable Conscience Speaks: Scandinavian Journalism’s Bold Take on Recent Events
From the desk of Thomas F. Bertonneau on Wed, 2009-12-09 01:33
It used to be a joke among Swedes of self-deprecating ability – one dating from the time when Dag Hammarskjöld was President of the United Nations – that the most obvious trait of the representative Stockholm bureaucrat or university professor when abroad was his “portable conscience.”
The Cult of Reason – The Dark Side of the Enlightenment
From the desk of Fjordman on Wed, 2009-12-09 01:23
There are few books published these days that are worth a second look, but The Suicide of Reason by Lee Harris is one of the exceptions. Many observers currently sense – correctly inmy view – that something is fundamentally wrong with the Western world, but they differ substantially in their analysis of the cause(s) of this. The First and Second World Wars were horrible, and most thinking people agree that something went wrong with the Western Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s, which unlike the Chinese Cultural Revolution became institutionalized. But does that mean that everything was fine in the 1950s?
Switzerland: Last Bulwark against the Judges
From the desk of Paul Belien on Wed, 2009-12-09 01:10
In a recent referendum, a majority of the Swiss approved a ban on the construction of new minarets in their country. Now activist European European judges may tell Switzerland to lift the ban. The Swiss, however, might not be impressed.
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