Multiculturalism
Michael Gerson offers a memorable quotation: After the British army conquered the Sindh region of what is now modern-day Pakistan in the 1840s, Gen. Charles Napier enforced a ban on the practice of...
View ArticleEco-imperialism
Japan, where people enjoy a good cut of whale, is pushing back against international anti-whaling rules, which are allegedly nothing more than “eco-imperialism.” According to the Japanese, it would be...
View ArticleChild abuse as cultural relativism
The New York Times has published a piece condemning the U.S. military for ignoring cases of child sexual abuse in Afghanistan. And yet, a few years earlier, the Times published a piece praising...
View ArticleThe death of relativism?
Can the West keep up its postmodernist ideology of relativism–that there is no moral truth and that all cultures are equally valid–in the face of ISIS terrorism? Andrew Klavan thinks not. From Andrew...
View ArticleDefending Child-Killing in the Name of Cultural Relativism
In the jungles of Brazil, some tribes kill children who are disabled, who were born to single mothers, and who are twins. The Brazilian legislature is considering a bill outlawing these practices....
View Article“Muwaji’s Law” against Child-Killing in Brazil
As we blogged about before, Brazil is attempting to outlaw the practice of some indigenous tribes of killing children whom they think are bad luck–children born of single mothers, babies with blemishes...
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