As a corollary to Jeff’s recent posts on our assuredly illiberal progressives, I offer a piece from the City Journal exploring the material outcome of the Enlightenment. No, it wasn’t just internet porn. Give it a read and consider one basic effect from an intellectual movement that classical liberals consider worthy of conserving and progressives consider… not at all. Of course, the Enlightenment did murder Western Civilization. Which, that just

Christina Hoff Sommers once again shows herself to be an anti-feminist — this time by failing to recognize that market economics is itself a patriarchal construct, and so cannot be used to justify the very kinds of iniquity its insidiousness demands. And yet she tries: Since 1989, the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California (USC) has published a study of “Gender in Televised Sports” every five

Decline and fall. America: R.I.P.

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Obama hatred: it’s not just for conservatives/classical-liberals anymore! (thanks to JHo)

Well, consider it done. Though in the President’s defense, he never promised he’d rebuild it, you know — well: The employment picture is looking bleaker as applications for jobless benefits rose last week to the highest level in almost six months. It’s a sign that hiring is weak and employers are still cutting their staffs. First-time claims for jobless benefits edged up by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 484,000, the