Words Worth Noting - September 15, 2024

“What I’ve been drawing attention to is the ‘anti-Zionist’ antisemitism that has been central to the various theses and propositions of the contemporary ‘progressive’ project. It is not evil because it is antisemitic. It is antisemitic because it is evil.”

Terry Glavin on Substack Feb. 2, 2024 [https://therealstory.substack.com/p/through-the-darkness-some-light-is].

Words Worth Noting - September 13, 2024

“Although the terms ‘skepticism’ and ‘relativism’ are usually used interchangeably, skepticism is in a sense the exact opposite of relativism, for skepticism says that no one has the truth, while relativism says that everyone has it, for truth is only ‘my truth’ or ‘your truth.’ Skepticism denies truth; relativism denies error.”

Dale Ahlquist reviewing a new edition of Peter Kreeft’s Socrates’ Children, an introduction to what Kreeft considers the 100 most important philosophers ever, in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #5 (May-June 2023)

John Robson
Words Worth Noting - September 12, 2024

“This book appears as the world lumberingly and indecisively turns back from the abysses which we were lucky to escape, and which still yawn. Its theme is that the main responsibility for the century’s disasters lies not so much in the problems as in the solutions, not in impersonal forces but in human beings, thinking certain thoughts and as a result performing certain actions.”

Start of “Preface” in Robert Conquest Reflections on a Ravaged Century