Monthly Archives: April 2009

It is so obvious that proportional equality is an intellectually and morally bankrupt idea that it is truly painful to see it advanced by those who once rightly complained of past racial injustices in the United States. Having veered towards justice with considerable success, America is on the verge of becoming an unjust society yet again. This time, though, it will be minorities rather than whites who will be responsible for the moral chaos that will occur. Increasingly, the charge of racism has become no basis than reality. Increasingly, the charge of racism is simply about crying wolf and so is none other than a convenient way to promote self-interest not in the name of justice but at the expense of justice. Continue reading →

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has for intents and purposes denied the reality of the Holocaust and neither women nor gays in Iran have the basic human respect that they should have. Yet, the Left cannot seem to bring itself to denounce Ahmadinejad. What would he have to do in order for that to happen? I know, I know: Ahmadinejad need only claim that Blacks are nothing but Niggers. Folks on the Left would then trip over themselves denouncing him. And when Ahmadinejad announces that all Blacks are Niggers, Jews should simply claim that they are Black! Done Continue reading →

There is the story of Susan Boyle and there is the story of Job.  For those familiar with the biblical text in the Judeo-Christian tradition, Job was recognized by God as a righteous person.  The beauty of the Job story … Continue reading →

When we truly know that we have a gift of excellence, it safe to say that even the gates of hell will have difficulty prevailing against us.  It was precisely this self-knowledge of her singing ability that Susan Boyle brought … Continue reading →

Within a mere four seconds of Susan Boyle’s singing, there was not a shadow of doubt on anyone’s part that her voice was none other than a human treasure. Susan Boyle stands as most poignant reminder that necessarily there is a certain duality to humanity. We can all agree that there is much to be said for looking fit and excellent. Just so, a person’s physique alone cannot reveal the depth of the individual’s real character—not the person’s hopes and dreams, nor the ideas that animate the person’s soul nor the wherewithal which the person has to persevere in the face of hard-times. And my hope is that Susan Boyle will also not forget the marvelous moral lesson that she has taught all of us. Angles are not beautiful people. Rather, they are gifts from God Continue reading →

Name calling is what we do in the United States these days when someone has the temerity to disagree with us. It is utterly relevant that someone should actually have good reasons for disagreeing with us. For in a world without objective moral values, all it takes in order to be right is that we feel something deeply and strongly enough. “Shut your damn mouth you X-ist, you” is not an argument. Neither the decibels with which this utterance is spoken nor the passage of time will make it so. This utterance is, however, a form of intimidation. And social progress that rests simply upon intimidation is not progress at all. Rather, it is evil masquerading as good, as the case of Nazi Germany makes abundantly clear. Continue reading →

To give a person hope is not to give a person a reason to be angry; it is not to give a person a reason to be bitter. Rather, to give a person hope is simply to give a person reason to at least to start transforming her or his life for the better. In the case Natalie, Dr. Laura drew upon the incontrovertible truth that every woman should respect herself, a truth which does not require diminishing others. That is moral feminism at its best. Continue reading →

We have with the case of Ting-Yi Oeie is a major and most unfortunate victory for evil itself, because the moral authority of school administrators and teachers has been severely compromised. This is the insidious lesson that nearly every child in school will take away from the moment. Indeed, a great many children will take this insidious lesson from the moment precisely because their parents will teach it to them. So it is thanks to the evil self-righteousness of James Plowman, the Prosecutor. Continue reading →

Was he Mixon a victim of racial injustice? Did he have to live through an intolerable hell the likes of which I am cannot even begin to imagine? I assume that both questions are to be answered affirmatively. A hero, though, is not merely someone for whom these claims are true. Rather, a hero is someone who with grace and majesty transcends this very reality. The hero is not someone who is merely carried along by the current of the cesspool of her or his reality. Rather, the hero rises above it. Lovell Mixon is not a hero. No amount of name calling or moral posturing will make it the case that he is. Continue reading →

I have offered an account of matters which makes it clear that there is some moral space which the American Philosophical Association would do well to respect if, indeed, it is serious about its respect for religious freedom. In the academy, there is an awful lot of hostility towards religion nowadays. The sad part is that this cauldron of hostility has resulted in the same sort of dismissive attitudes and moral blindness to distinctions that we find characteristic of those who are deeply biased in morally obnoxious ways. Continue reading →