Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on [...]
Posted on June 12th, 2005 by pwyll
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A portion of a conversation between Christopher Hitchens, and Peter Hitchens, his brother, from Guardian Unlimited. I found their exchange on religion quite interesting. I plan to use it as a starting point for presenting some thoughts of my own. I admire the directness of CH’s response to the woman in the audience. It is [...]
Posted on June 12th, 2005 by pwyll
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Canada’s top court has looked into the eyes of the country’s political leaders and called their bluff. For more than a decade, prime ministers and premiers have boasted about how medicare is the best health care system in the world. In election after election, they have pledged to make it even better.
But in a split [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2005 by pwyll
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V.I. Arnold On teaching mathematics. Very interesting, and it reams the French.
Via John Derbyshire.
Posted on June 10th, 2005 by pwyll
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) member Chris Link of Norfolk, Va., top, adjusts the cellophane covering on the costume of demonstrator Dezeray Rubinchik of Philadelphia, top right, during a protest in front of the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I. The protest, in which three people placed themselves in containers resembling [...]
Posted on June 10th, 2005 by pwyll
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Perry de Havilland, in Samizdata:
And where are the marchers in the west? Where are the protesters calling for justice in Zimbabwe? Where is the outrage from those tireless tribunes of the Third World, the UN? Why can I not hear the snarls of fury from the alphabet soup of NGOs? What of the legions of [...]
Posted on June 10th, 2005 by pwyll
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