Category Archives: Culture

American national character: Rocky and Bullwinkle

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

“The Dogma of Otherness is a worldview that actually encourages an appetite for newness. A hunger for diversity. An eagerness for change. Tolerance, naturally, plays a major role in the legends spread by this culture. (Look at the underlying message … Continue reading →

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Go tell the Spartans…

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

In a few days 300 will open, and my wife and I are trying to work out the logistics of how we’re going to arrange for her to see it while I take care of the seven-month-old. Our apartment in … Continue reading →

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What do we look like?

Posted on February 5, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

My wife just mentioned to me that our son looks kind of weird to her. By now I know what she means by that, so I said, “You mean, not Polish?” “Yes.” Jerzy has brown hair and very dark eyes. … Continue reading →

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Racism versus Culturism

Posted on November 24, 2006 by Stephen W. Browne

After I published “Obsevations on Arabs” on the Atlasphere and on my blog, I got a lot of interesting feedback. Many people with experience in the Gulf chimed in with their own observations, mostly in at least qualified agreement. One … Continue reading →

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The Hot Button issue

Posted on September 22, 2006 by Stephen W. Browne

Religion. (I wonder if you guessed that one?) Quite obviously there is a culture war going on between the believers and the committed secularists. Or to put it another way, the committed believers in something running the universe and the … Continue reading →

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Observations on Arabs

Posted on September 9, 2006 by Stephen W. Browne

Journalist Jill Carroll is back home now, and detailing her experiences as a captive of the jihadists in Iraq in the Christian Science Monitor.( http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0814/p01s01-woiq.html ) I’m sure the details will prove fascinating, but the upshot of what she has … Continue reading →

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Have you ever kippled?

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Stephen W. Browne

Note: See my post on Ilana Mercer’s blog http://www.ilanamercer.com/ under Solomonic State Censors Speech. I post fairly frequently there. “Do you like Kipling?”“I don’t know, I’ve never kippled.” John Derbyshire has a column on poetry at National Review Online here … Continue reading →

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Shatner Roast

Posted on August 28, 2006 by Stephen W. Browne

Celebrity Roast: Last night while channel surfing I came across a celebrity roast for William Shatner and as an old Star Trek fan couldn’t resist. I should have. It occurs to me that I haven’t actually seen many celebrity roasts, … Continue reading →

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