VFR’s fifth birthday

Five years ago, on April 20, 2002, the conservative writer Jim Kalb inaugurated View from the Right. Here is the first full week of entries by Mr. Kalb. I was an active commenter from the start, and a month later I posted my first blog entry. Here are all the entries from that week.

There is a lot in that week of interest. See for example Mr. Kalb’s original and surprising observation about the Upanishads, that they are not a divine revelation but a philosophical speculation presenting a rational though excessively simplified picture of the world, “in which God, man, and everything else are all the same.” Then see my comment of June 3, 2002 1:44 AM expanding on that point.

Or see my discussion of procedural and substantive liberalism (which is really an early version of my 2005 article “How the 1964 Civil Rights Act Made Racial Group Entitlements Inevitable”), followed by Jim Kalb’s priceless definition of Whiggism as “the well-managed abolition of the transcendent.”

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Laura W. writes:

I have enjoyed reading from the archives of VFR in its infancy, posted the other day. Interesting how you both came out with your guns fully loaded. Some great comments by Jim Kalb on gay marriage, on libertarianism and the internet, and on (that ever-thorny topic) Catholicism.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 27, 2007 08:30 PM | Send