A Conservative Is A Liberal Mugged By

...what Is At Stake Is Civilization And Humanity, Nothing Less. The Idea That Everything Is Permitted, As Nietzsche Put It, Rests On The Premise Of Nihilism And Has Nihilistic Implications. I Will Not Pretend That The Case Against Nihilism And For Civilization Is An Easy One To Make. We Are Here Confronting The Most Fundamental Of Philosophical Questions, On The Deepest Levels. In Short, The Matter Of Pornography And Obscenity Is Not A Trivial One, And Only Superficial Minds Can Take A Bland And Untroubled View Of It.

Nostalgia Is One Of The Legitimate And Certainly One Of The Most Enduring Of Human Emotions; But The Politics Of Nostalgia Is At Best Distracting, At Worst Pernicious.

Even If We Can't Be Happy, We Must Always Be Cheerful.

It Is Ironic To Watch The Churches, Including Large Sections Of My Own Religion, Surrendering To The Spirit Of Modernity At The Very Moment When Modernity Itself Is Undergoing A Kind Of Spiritual Collapse.

Democracy Does Not Guarantee Equality Of Conditions - It Only Guarantees Equality Of Opportunity.