Honor, Hubris, A/C

| July 25, 2003

This article on honor (or honour, as our cousins spell it) both hits and misses a number of points. Yes, I have a few nits to pick. Not many. America, it seems, remains culturally divided along the Mason–Dixon line, and the crucial difference now, as at the time of the American Civil War, is honour. […]

Quote of the Day II

| July 24, 2003

“I’m sorry, but not since Professor Peter Singer explained that we should give as good as we get from dogs who hump our legs, have I been so exasperated with the way some academics think they can use their head for a colonoscopy and then crab-walk around expecting all the world to think their new […]