Thinking Out Aloud

Postings on books (mainly non-fiction), a few films and matters of interest by Lorenzo from Oz (aka Downunder)

Monday, May 2, 2016

The Perfect Soldiers

LA Times journalist Terry McDermont's study Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers, Who They Were, Why They Did It goes into the otherwi...

Monday, April 11, 2016

Westerners have moral agency, Muslims have excuses

The recent case of a Norwegian left of centre politician who is apparently distressed that his convicted Somali rapist is likely to be dep...

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Can a contemporary Western country have a moral immigration policy with a reasonable risk level?

The intense, and highly moralised, debate over migration in the West is clearly based on a widespread presumption that it is obviously poss...

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Post-Enlightenment is just the Counter-Enlightenment rebooted

There is a clear difference between the modernist Left and the postmodern progressivism. The modernist Left was an Enlightenment project,...

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