tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:51:15 +0000Welcoming The Future With Open Armshttp://www.necessarychaos.com/noreply@blogger.com (Chris)Blogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-9064457778458291893Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:51:00 +00002010-04-26T09:51:16.302-07:00 This blog is now located at http://hogwashjournal.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://hogwashjournal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. http://www.necessarychaos.com/2010/04/this-blog-has-moved.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-116416054697516673Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:45:00 +00002006-11-21T17:56:47.636-08:00Click here to read the full text of the 2006 Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture, given by Spectator editor Matthew d'Ancona on October 27th at the Examination Schools, Oxford.http://www.necessarychaos.com/2006/11/confessions-of-hawkish-hack-media-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-116193477948669182Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:38:00 +00002006-11-09T02:13:09.716-08:00 Environmental polemicist George Monbiot's new book asks why people do not act on their fears of climate change. Good question.James Heartfield Heat: how to stop the planet burning, supported by its accompanying website www.turnuptheheat.org, demands to know why the very people that are committed to saving the environment are doing most to destroying it. Guardian columnist George Monbiot http://www.necessarychaos.com/2006/10/secular-version-of-kingdom-come.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-116175638652821522Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:05:00 +00002006-10-24T23:06:46.526-07:00It is scandalous that doctors are refusing treatment to patients who smoke, drink or eat junk food.Rob LyonsDoctors in the UK, prompted by policy changes by government, are increasingly refusing to treat patients because they smoke, drink or weigh too much. Who the hell do they think they are?In the latest example of this trend, health chiefs in Norfolk and Newcastle-under-Lyme have decided to http://www.necessarychaos.com/2006/10/whatever-happened-to-humane-medicine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-116174570050898607Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:07:00 +00002006-10-24T20:12:36.200-07:00By Sam Harris | October 22, 2006THE MIDTERM elections are fast approaching, and their outcome could well be determined by the ``moral values" of conservative Christians. While this possibility is regularly bemoaned by liberals, the link between religion and morality in our public life is almost never questioned. One of the most common justifications one hears for religious faith, from all http://www.necessarychaos.com/2006/10/bad-reasons-to-be-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-116052265086445204Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:20:00 +00002006-10-10T16:33:06.413-07:00ByMark HelprinThis essay will appear in the Fall 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Imagine an Israeli guerrilla organization based in the Galilee, a power unto itself, with seats in the cabinet, a generous welfare apparatus, and the oft-stated goal of Lebanon's destruction and replacement with a Jewish state governed by Jewish religious law. Upon instructions from its foreign patron andhttp://www.necessarychaos.com/2006/10/war-in-lebanon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-112587336346635294Sun, 04 Sep 2005 22:23:00 +00002005-09-04T15:36:03.480-07:00Some of the commentary almost seems to be rubbing its hands in "we-told-you-so" glee.by Mick HumeThe sea of effluent running through the streets of New Orleans this week has been accompanied by some equally putrid propaganda from those who try to seize on any disaster as proof of the rotten state of humanity - and of its American branch in particular.Those who insist that Hurricane Katrina was http://www.necessarychaos.com/2005/09/after-katrina-another-putrid-deluge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-112493244568905794Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:02:00 +00002005-08-24T18:45:06.903-07:00So what if astronauts can glimpse signs of man's impact on Earth?by Sandy StarrTwo cheers for NASA on the return of its space shuttle Discovery to Earth, mostly intact and with its crew alive and well. One cheer is deducted, partly because - as has been argued elsewhere on spiked - the mission was a glorified 'grocery-delivery trip to the International Space Station' (see Retreatinghttp://www.necessarychaos.com/2005/08/marks-of-human-progress.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-112138266644774605Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:08:00 +00002005-07-14T16:12:01.730-07:00What the genocide taught us about intervention.By Christopher HitchensTen years since the hecatomb of Srebrenica … surely a decade cannot have passed so quickly? It really feels to me like yesterday. I can hear Susan Sontag's exact tone of voice as she described being in a ministerial office in Sarajevo when the mayor of Srebrenica got through on a bad line to say, "This is goodbye." He did not http://www.necessarychaos.com/2005/07/from-srebrenica-to-baghdad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-111947540111913882Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:22:00 +00002005-06-22T14:24:25.500-07:00If you liked The Da Vinci Code, you'll love the Downing Street Memo.By Christopher HitchensPosted Tuesday, June 21, 2005, at 9:42 AM PTA few weeks ago, at an airport in Europe, I saw Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code staring at me across the bookstore bins. I had seen it many times before and averted my gaze, but I was facing a long delay, and I suddenly thought: May as well get it over with.Well, of http://www.necessarychaos.com/2005/06/conspiracy-theories.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-111734332573024486Sun, 29 May 2005 05:07:00 +00002005-05-28T22:11:36.890-07:00Stop the Masochistic InsanityThe violent response to the report of "Quranic abuse" isn't about faith, it's about intolerance.By Christopher HitchensPosted Monday, May 23, 2005, at 9:16 AM PTToward the end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, when music had already been banned and women excluded from Islamic rituals by being immured in their homes, and when new non-Quranic punishments—such as being http://www.necessarychaos.com/2005/05/stop-masochistic-insanity-violent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-111630979247526608Tue, 17 May 2005 05:57:00 +00002005-05-28T22:12:55.940-07:00Why does the New York Times insist on calling jihadists "insurgents"?By Christopher HitchensPosted Monday, May 16, 2005, at 10:09 AM PTWhen the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair. A doozy classic led the "Week in Review" section on Sunday. Portentously headed "The Mystery of the Insurgency," the article rubbed its eyes at the sheer lunacy andhttp://www.necessarychaos.com/2005/05/history-and-mystery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-111122868769400987Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:37:00 +00002005-03-19T02:38:07.700-08:00We should not ask whether the Iraq invasion was 'legal' - we should ask whether it was 'good'David AaronovitchSunday March 6, 2005ObserverLast week's jilbab decision left me wondering whether the law was always this important. Wasn't there a time when schools could take decisions about the uniforms their pupils should wear without a judge having the final say? I see the advantages of greater http://www.necessarychaos.com/2005/03/war-of-words.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-111014774977129276Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:20:00 +00002005-03-06T15:53:44.623-08:00by Christopher HitchensThe return of politics to Iraq has had many blissful secondary consequences, one of them apparently minor but nonetheless, I think, important. When was the last time you heard some glib pundit employing the phrase "The Arab Street"? I haven't actually done a Nexis search on this, but my strong impression is that the term has been, without any formal interment, laid to rest.http://www.necessarychaos.com/2005/03/arab-street-vanquished-cliche.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-110958248387441902Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:20:00 +00002005-02-28T01:21:23.906-08:00By Paula Bourges WaldeggIt’s not hard to accept that there’s a pressing need to find answers for the questions that issues such as cloning, pollution, or genetic manipulation entail. However, it is difficult to agree which are these questions and their possible answers because the debate is often driven by the naturalistic fallacy, the belief that nature is essentially good. The environmentalist http://www.necessarychaos.com/2005/02/naturalistic-fallacy-and-sophies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653517.post-110958147909426830Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:03:00 +00002005-02-28T01:14:57.056-08:00By Edmund StandingIn debates about sexuality, ‘nature’ is invariably brought into the discussion, and usually all the participants involved will try to claim that nature supports their position. Why? What if nature isn’t our best guide at all? We live most of our lives in a constant process of negating the base realities of nature, yet when it comes to sex we suddenly think nature has all the http://www.necessarychaos.com/2005/02/against-nature-why-nature-should-have.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chris)