Category Archives: Culture Wars

Jason Richwine & The Future of Conservatism Inc.

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Max West

James Kirkpatrick has an excellent column, the best I’ve yet read, on the Richwine lynching’s implications for the future of conservatism.

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Donald Kagan: “Democracy May Have Had Its Day”

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Max West

80-year old Yale classics scholar Donald Kagan gave his ‘farewell’ lecture this past Thursday. He is of a generation that cherished the Western tradition: Universities, he proposed, are failing students and hurting American democracy. Curricula are “individualized, unfocused and scattered.” … Continue reading →

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Gay Marriage => Polygamy => ?…

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Max West

Since the earliest days of the gay marriage debate (qua Culture Wars), a strong argument laid out against gay marriage has been that, once one accepts the notion that homosexual couples have a ‘natural right’ to be married, then one … Continue reading →

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