Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » David Yerushalmi http://www.intellectualconservative.com Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:08:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 In Search of a Moderate Muslim http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/05/10/in-search-of-a-moderate-muslim/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/05/10/in-search-of-a-moderate-muslim/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 11:00:21 +0000 David Yerushalmi http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/05/11/in-search-of-a-moderate-muslim/ The mythical “moderate” Muslim — the Muslim who embraces traditional Islam but wants a peaceful coexistence with the West — is effectively non-existent because to the extent he exists, he has no voice.

Any serious student of Islam – of historical, traditional, and authoritative Islam – understands that Islam is as much a political ideology with [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/05/10/in-search-of-a-moderate-muslim/feed/ 64 The Peace Process and Treason as Immigration Policy http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/05/01/the-peace-process-and-treason-as-immigration-policy/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/05/01/the-peace-process-and-treason-as-immigration-policy/#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 12:30:06 +0000 David Yerushalmi http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/05/01/the-peace-process-and-treason-as-immigration-policy/ In America, as well as in Virginia and most states, resident aliens are treated just like citizens.

I have written extensively just recently on the act of treason dressed up as a Peace Process in the Middle East and as a peace process dressed up as Democracy-Building in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We now have treason [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/05/01/the-peace-process-and-treason-as-immigration-policy/feed/ 4 Jew Hatred? http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/02/05/jew-hatred/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/02/05/jew-hatred/#comments Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:32:36 +0000 David Yerushalmi http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/jew-hatred/ The Jewish problem for conservatives professes to uncover the many and varied ways Jews destroy their host nations like a fatal parasite, especially when the host is a Western nation-state.

If you spend a fair amount of time reading on and offline the essays and scholarly works of conservative thinkers as I do, one thing [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/02/05/jew-hatred/feed/ 22 Enough With “Democracy” http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/19/enough-with-democracy/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/19/enough-with-democracy/#comments Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:55:31 +0000 David Yerushalmi http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/enough-with-democracy/ The evidence suggests that President Bush has been overwhelmed by the notion that democracy and its methods trump all the uncertainties left over from science.

It is time to say out loud the ugly truth. President Bush and his administration have been gambling irrationally with our lives, our soldiers’ lives, and our treasure. There is no [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/19/enough-with-democracy/feed/ 24 Slippery Slope or the Destruction of Being? http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/15/slippery-slope-or-the-destruction-of-being/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/15/slippery-slope-or-the-destruction-of-being/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:20:22 +0000 David Yerushalmi http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/slippery-slope-or-the-destruction-of-being/ For all of those Enlightenment thinkers who owed so much to the foundation Descartes laid down for them in the new science – the new science that reduced man to mere matter  — political order or the ontological ranking of things in the world could no longer be natural to man.

According to science, everything [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/15/slippery-slope-or-the-destruction-of-being/feed/ 1 What was the Pope doing in Turkey? http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/13/what-was-the-pope-doing-in-turkey/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/13/what-was-the-pope-doing-in-turkey/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:20:31 +0000 David Yerushalmi http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/what-was-the-pope-doing-in-turkey/ While the Pope knew he would disappoint many Catholics and non-Catholics in the West for what appears as unnecessary humiliation and capitulation, he also knows that the West, given its rejection of Truth and Reason and its fixation with the ratiocination of modern science, is simply incapable of defeating Islam.

There appears to be [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/13/what-was-the-pope-doing-in-turkey/feed/ 3 The “Right of Return” http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/11/the-right-of-return/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/11/the-right-of-return/#comments Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:45:20 +0000 David Yerushalmi http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/the-right-of-return/ To James Baker and Lee Hamilton, borders and discrimination based upon the geography of a man's birthplace appears to be the most irrational of ratiocinations possible.

It is appropriate to applaud the Baker-Hamilton Report issued by the Iraq Study Group. What I refer to here is the quite noteworthy item that Mr. Baker had successfully inserted (some [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/12/11/the-right-of-return/feed/ 0 Bill O’Reilly and the Secular Progressives http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/11/12/bill-oreilly-and-the-secular-progressives/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/11/12/bill-oreilly-and-the-secular-progressives/#comments Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:00:15 +0000 David Yerushalmi http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/bill-oreilly-and-the-secular-progressives/ In his best-selling book Culture Warrior, Bill O'Reilly sets out a potentially more useful division between traditionalists and secular progressives.

Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly published by Broadway (September 25, 2006) Hdbk., 240 pgs. ISBN: 0767920929 

The world today seems to be divided along several axes. The two most widely discussed here in the United [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/11/12/bill-oreilly-and-the-secular-progressives/feed/ 0 Science versus Scientism http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/11/02/science-versus-scientism/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/11/02/science-versus-scientism/#comments Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:05:11 +0000 David Yerushalmi http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/science-versus-scientism/ Many men of good faith do not realize that science will never abdicate its current role as man’s sole and exclusive route to certain knowledge. Science itself demands its world to be the exclusive domain of certain knowledge.

I have presented in many essays a critique of the modern experience of Western man and his society (see, e.g., here, here, [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/11/02/science-versus-scientism/feed/ 4 The Bush War Doctrine Revisited http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/10/31/the-bush-war-doctrine-revisited/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/10/31/the-bush-war-doctrine-revisited/#comments Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:05:40 +0000 David Yerushalmi http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/the-bush-war-doctrine-revisited/ The second leg of the War Doctrine — avoid a war with Islam and work to bring its faithful into the 21st Century by Democracy Building — is purely ideological, meaning it is a denial of reality, and illogical.

I have taken two very critical positions on the Bush War Doctrine. (My earlier essays [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/10/31/the-bush-war-doctrine-revisited/feed/ 12