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Different Kinds of Freedom

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April 9, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Here is a quotation from Aldous Huxley’s 1946 foreword to Brave New World: “As political or economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase.  And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty […]

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Dear Urban Cyclists: Go Play in Traffic

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April 7, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

P. J. O’Rourke has taken off on the absurdity of bicycles.  However, there are some people that really need and use them, and I’m thinking of “Los Midnight Riders” from my earlier post.  There does need to be some safe […]

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The Uses of Classical Music in the Public Square

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April 6, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It turns out that classical music in the public square has a function of value.  Adolescents tend to disperse from where it is played, so even such as McDonalds are now discovering the delights of the Western classical music tradition. […]

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An Amazing Millay Sonnet

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March 29, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This sonnet by Edna St Vincent Millay has, for some reason, been sitting on my desk for a year or so, and I just found it. Keep in mind that it was written in 1939, thirty years before men actually […]

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Moms

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March 16, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Abby Wisse Schachter, in a recent Weekly Standard, unfortunately not available to non-subscribers, finds fault with both the Tiger Mom and her chief opponent on the ground that one cares about achievement, the other about following your bliss, but neither seems […]

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Chinese Parenting, Part II: Why Chinese Mothers are Superior

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January 29, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Here is David Brooks defending the upper middle class American approach to parenting.  He declares that Amy Chua sheltered her daughters from the kind of social interactions that teach us how to deal with people in the real world.  In […]

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Chinese Parenting, Part I: Why Chinese Mothers are Superior

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January 28, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This article is not only interesting for its own sake, but because it illustrates a cultural division that has been raging in mixed Asian-Anglo communities such as Irvine, California.  There are not separate school systems, but there are “Asian” churches […]

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In a Rather Interesting Magazine Called “The American Conservative”

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January 22, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In a rather interesting magazine called The American Conservative, which is not conservative necessarily as we understand it in Orange County, but actually represents pacifist conservatives of all kinds (and yes there is such a thing as pacifist conservatives) Stephen […]

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There is apparently a shortage of sodium thiopental…

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January 11, 2011June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There is apparently a shortage of sodium thiopental, a drug mainly used to execute people.  In a way, that is just as well.  The death penalty is not a medical procedure, and should not be disguised as one.  Gurneys, needles, […]

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In my youth, people knew that the only way to stop arbitrary exercises…

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December 22, 2010June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It is a pity that, apparently, no one got arrested. In my youth, people knew that the only way to stop arbitrary exercises of government authority like this one was to force them to arrest you or give you your […]

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