November 2008
7 posts
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/dec/01/00006/ →
My favourite essayist (a pompous term, but I like that) on your favourite(?) subject.
Art, Duty and Judgement →
I’m thinking that we should probably post a topic or link or discussion piece as the article itself, then debate in the comments. Otherwise the sequence of posts won’t make any sense.
Justin Responds - Blog Sounds Good
Sorry, meant to say centre-right. That was a Freudian slip. The U.S. is centre-right for sure. I wasn’t intending to say that harm is a purely left-wing concern. Moral psychology indicates what people rate most highly, but only people with various forms of autism, etc. rate zero in any category. I would agree that liberal philosophy gets carried away on protecting people, which is why I...
Ant Responds
To your final question in your first email - it’s probable that I’ll only send links to news outlets that reinforce my existing views so while they may be useful, they may not. My favourite writer by a distance is Theodore Dalrymple (pen name for Anthony Daniels, but not the actor that played C-3PO). He writes in, among other things, the City Journal (US publication) but you can see...
Opening Salvo from Justin
Took me a while to get through that, but it was quite good. Of course, being a liberal I take offense to the suggestion that we’re all stupid, poorly dressed and intent on destroying our country. Only the poorly dressed bit is statistically inarguable, because we tend not to be the highest wage earners in the land. That’s especially true now with just under a decade of wage...
The Link that Started it All →
Ant:
“I don’t know if you’ve seen this - very entertaining article by PJ O’Rourke, of whom I’m a fan anyway. I wish I got all the cultural references; I’m almost, but not quite, conceited enough to try and write a British version.”
The ensuing discussion turned in to this blog.
Welcome to Across the Pond
My friend and I got in a lively email debate on political philosophy and decided to start a blog. In fairness, it was his suggestion. The title of the blog indicates the fact that one of us lives in the UK and the other in the US and that we are also of opposite political persuasions. Hopefully you enjoy this exercise and we keep it going.
I’ll post some back content here shortly to get...