Quotations

Cardinal Newman described the Church of England in 1864 as “a serviceable breakwater against doctrinal errors more fundamental than its own." Daily Telegraph

Nathan Brown, a non-resident senior fellow at Carnegie Middle East Centre, said in an article this week that Israel’s traditional security policy of “deterrence and diplomacy” had been eclipsed after the Oct 7 massacre “by something harsher: a preference for domination, degradation and the prevention of the adversaries’ recovery”. Daily Telegraph

"The great replacement isn’t a theory, much less a conspiracy. It’s measurable, physical reality that has changed the West more profoundly than any war." Tucker Carlson

Virginia Woolf’s diary entries on James Joyce’s Ulysses: 

“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. … I finished ‘Ulysses’ and think it is a misfire. Genius it has, I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first-rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.”

Glenn Diesen

@Glenn_Diesen

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There is something surreal about our government-appointed “experts” speaking about the threat to freedom of navigation. The U.S. attacks boats off the coast of Venezuela and imposes a blockade on both Venezuela and Cuba. NATO countries are currently engaged in a campaign of piracy and attacks on Russian ships. Iranian tankers have been hijacked for years. International law is essentially a set of agreements based on mutual constraints, where predictability depends on reciprocity. You cannot exempt yourself from the rules and then expect compliance from the other side. The West has for years acted like rogue states, and they that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.