Subject: Horowitz Replies
Re: "Frame Game: White Whine"
From: David Horowitz
Date: Thu Mar 29  5:05 p.m. PT

I can understand how [William] Saletan is peeved that I—a conservative intellectual—should have gotten so much publicity and so much (liberal) media support for my efforts to unhorse a corrupt, leftwing black political leadership bent on encouraging African-Americans to butt their heads against the rest of the country and wind up frustrated, angry and grist for the next "civil rights" hustle. …

"To rectify the left's crimes against Horowitz" (Saletan's formulation) is actually not my agenda. My agenda is to diminish the "crimes" the hard left is allowed to commit against today's students, including many whose views place them squarely on the social democratic side of things.

[To read this post in full, click here. William Saletan replied to Mr. Horowitz here, and many other readers joined the thread.]

Subject: The Reality of Evil

Re: "Culturebox: Newjack Nation—Living in a Prison State"

From: Dan Simon

Date: Wed Mar 28  11:43 a.m. PT 

Punishment, like war, is not always the product of a confused or synthesized misperception of human evil; rather, it is often the product of a clear-eyed recognition of the fact of human evil. And after decades of disastrous flight from that recognition … it is lately no longer tenable to deny the reality that makes punishment a tragic necessity. That is why the prison critics, while decrying the agony that punishment inevitably inflicts on both punishers and punished, cannot, in the end, offer a plausible alternative. For, in truth, there is none.

[Find this post in full  here.]

Subject: The Truth About Fatherhood

Re: "Seed: No Nobels, One 'Failure,' A Few Regrets"

From: Tom R.

Date: Fri Mar 30  10:13 a.m. PT

This lack of acceptance of the natural implications of fatherhood is what I would denote as the common thread of the Seed sample group. What is particularly important for me is what these men are missing by definition: my feeling that I will have had a decisive influence on my children's lives which is unlike any other relationship that I can have with another set of persons.