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Michael Novak writes:

In the current culture wars on campus, an explicit indictment of these perversions may be useful.

(1) Anti-Americanism. Since it regards the West (at least its white males) as imperialistic, and America as the most advanced face of the West, multiculturalism expresses hostility to American traditions and institutions, while glorifying non-Western cultures, especially those [...]

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Spengler has some amusing reflections on pop music and the stupidity that attends the culture of resentment:

No other nation rejects the notion of a high culture with such vehemence, or celebrates the mediocre with such giddiness. Americans prefer to identify with what is like them, rather than emulate what is better than them. The epitome [...]

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Speaking intuitively rather than statistically, one effect of the recent fighting that gives me some ground for hope is that is has inaugurated a new sense of community among those who become aware of the immense damage wrought by White Guilt’s mindless moral narcissism. It is interesting to see Shelby Steele’s far more widely publicized [...]

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Nelson Ascher says unanimity isn’t required:

We all have spent too much time talking about the widespread anti-Semitism in the Muslim world and discovering, to our surprise, that many in the West actually share this feeling, while many more couldn’t really care less. This is a mistaken approach.

Instead of trying to understand “why they hate us

The latest Chronicle of Love & Resentment, entitled “The Final Conflict,” is now available.

-eric gans

This textbook example of scapegoating deserves to be front page news:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22107

That it is not speaks volumes about the sick, contagious way in which all too many people think, speak, and act.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22107_A_Death_Cult_Party_in_Jenin&only

I think he passes a little too quickly over some of our present difficulties, but here is a powerful, unconflicted defense of the Bush Doctrine from the godfather of the neo-conservative movement.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/files/podhoretz_0906.htm

Scenic Politics

As a vacation from the Middle East, this sample of Europe’s historical self-hatred is taken from an interview conducted by the leftish French weekly Le nouvel observateur with novelist and world traveler J.M.G. Le Clézio. See if you can detect what is missing in this picture (hint: obsidian knife):

N.O. – At the time of the [...]

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Because university students are recruited for terror plots, it’s worth noticing that homegrown terrorists are nourished by some of the West’s dumbest ideas:

We wonder why Muslims in Europe won’t contain their grievances and settle down to live within the ordinary routines of European society. I imagine that the tacit motto of most British politicians is [...]

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Steyn opines:

Pan-Islamism is the profound challenge to conventional ideas of citizenship and nationhood. Of course, if you say that at the average Ivy League college, you’ll get a big shrug: Modern multicultural man disdains to be bound by the nation state, too; he prides himself on being un citoyen du monde. The difference is that, [...]

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