tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post15725959119256623..comments2023-08-10T04:26:09.048-04:00Comments on Wise Man's Heart: Michael Novak: Americans love belonging to a real, concrete nationHermeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15048343595688010664noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post-31033451565505339782009-03-21T16:06:00.000-04:002009-03-21T16:06:00.000-04:00I just came upon this post. Great job in catching ...I just came upon this post. Great job in catching Novak out in his unbelievable reversible (though of courrse he doesn't acknowledge that he's reversing himself). I've posted something about it <A HREF="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/012789.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Lawrence Austerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10849202044663080776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post-66173893963925517492008-08-05T21:15:00.000-04:002008-08-05T21:15:00.000-04:00Another interesting point along those lines is how...Another interesting point along those lines is how liberal corporations themselves have become. Corporate work environments are every bit as PC as universities, and many corporations today have "Chief Diversity Officers." Yet the left cannot realize this--they continue to view corporations as old boys' clubs where rich old white men in top hats smoke cigars while stomping on women, blacks, and homosexualsHermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12759992237912757958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post-5433780664056759902008-08-05T17:41:00.000-04:002008-08-05T17:41:00.000-04:00Conservatism and Western Civilization are intertwi...Conservatism and Western Civilization are intertwined with Christianity, I absolutely agree. My post was not an attack on Christianity or Evangelicals by any means. It does disturb me that many churches, particularly many Protestent denominations (I'm Methodist, myself), have been touting liberal ideas for quite some time. My only hope is in some Catholic conservatives such as Pat Buchanan, although many Catholic entities are pro-globalism as well. I will read "The Conservative Mind" anyway. I probably already agree with what it has to say. Only one way to find out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post-33994650581791329282008-08-04T21:38:00.000-04:002008-08-04T21:38:00.000-04:00I agree that the neocon and corporate interest inf...I agree that the neocon and corporate interest influences in the Republican party is a bad thing, and I agree that to the extent Evangelicals ally with them, it is an unholy alliance. I want to make sure, however, that you don't think the presence of evangelicals is itself unholy. There seems to have arisen in recent years a view, held especially on the center-left, that "real" conservatives or Republicans are supposed to be just less extreme libertarians, and that a strong religious presence or advocacy of the values of traditional Western Civilization somehow represents a highjack of "true" conservatism. If that's where you're coming from, I urge you to read some early writings of the conservative movement like The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. Hopefully you will see that not only was religion an integral part of the conservative movement from the beginning, but that in order to have a free society that emphasizes self-reliance and personal responsibility, religion is necessary.Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12759992237912757958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post-73452073562367490902008-08-01T06:42:00.000-04:002008-08-01T06:42:00.000-04:00Old school, traditional conservatism kicked the bu...Old school, traditional conservatism kicked the bucket a long time ago. Right now the mainstream Republican party is represented by an unholy combination of Evangelicals,neocons, and corporate interests that seek to spread their bad ideas to other countries while allowing the riff raff of those countries to come here. <BR/><BR/>Great blog, by the way. I'm also a medical student (just finished year 1) dealing with these same issues. The future looks quite grim. It's good to find a like-minded individual in a sea of imbeciles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com