Truth and science can not really be at odds with each other and therefore conservatives, especially those who embrace a true religious faith, are very much interested in both the dialectical method and results of experimental science as well as divine revelation. This very idea of scientific truth as something superior or at odds with divine truths is very American or perhaps even English, but it is also very silly. Carl Sagan was not a serious student of Darwin or even serious about the origens of life itself. He was a popularizer of issues by combining pop science with pop culture. Why these folks get such a wide audience to the exclusion of other more serious scientists is the better question.

Money.

Oh my ! Aren’t we all surprized… Perhaps, if the middle class is prevented from entering places like Princeton and Harvard, it can be saved yet.

The underlying vacuousity of Ivy League scholarship aside, the fact is that the exclusion of Middle America from these institutions effectively excludes Middle America from any significant position of power in the country. There is almost no one in the government today to represent the soul of the heartland.

That said, given the current condition of the middle classes--notably, given what they've done to themselves even without Harvard--I'm not sure what if anything will save them.

The answer to your question is never. The media apparatus both left and right celebrate fixed bayonets pressed to the throat of Southern citizens.

When will it ever be recognised by the mainstream that the Federal occupation of Little Rock was in fact a crime? Never, of course, as long as the current regime stands.

Once one decides that art is about self-expression rather than truth, there is no end to the mischief; and there can be no learning.

I don't remember any civil rights revolution. What I saw on the black and white set with the overheating sound tube that had to be jiggled every few minutes to keep the audio feed was one part of America turning on another part.

I saw the federal government send in the mighty and invincible U.S. Army, recent victors over evil Japs and Germans, saviors of the free world and the heroes of every little boy's backyard battles, to stand with fixed bayonets in the path of their fellow Americans. I saw the tears of rage, humiliation, and heartbreak as these Americans realized they were no longer free men, and that their fight to preserve their communities and to protect their children from entanglement in an alien culture was lost.

To complain about the lack of "historic and moral arguments for discriminating in favor of kids from Angola and Argentina over kids whose parents came from Poland and Vietnam", is simply to legitimize the use of other such arguments - presumably the "right" ones - such as those that began to be used against white parents at Little Rock Central High in 1957. It is not "ending racial practices that went out at Little Rock Central High in 1957" that should be Mr. Buchanan's concern, but rather ending the ones that began then.

I have received and have just listened to CD 102 made by Mr. Ken Myers of the Mars Hill Audio Journal. Among those whose interviews are on the CD is one with Thomas Hibbs who states, and I paraphrase, that after all of the legitimate reasons for doing art, legitimacy being rooted in the order of being or the created world in which we live, have been deconstructed or have decayed in the onslaught of liberalism, all that is left is the self-centered and narcissistic notion of "self expression" which is written large and claims, in fact, to be art in late modernity.