Monday links

A couple links related to two people whose writing I always enjoy:

- Paul Cella, fellow Red State blogger, and all around good guy has an interesting article at The American Spectator: The Right Variety By

It is by now almost a truism to say that a society's celebration of diversity appears to be inversely related to its actual respect for it. America under the tyranny of political correctness has become a place of deadening uniformity, coerced at times, but more often than not chosen individually under the pressure of convention. People actually prefer to annihilate the variety that is in them. I work with a considerable number of bright young women, blessed with that wonderful accent of the American South, who outlay large amounts of time and money to obliterate it -- through speech classes and the like. It is a deliberate dispossession in the service of stultifying sameness.

One thing that will immediately strike anyone who takes the time (and it will be time well spent) to engage the older literature of American conservatism, is the marvelous variety of these characters. Here you will find real diversity. Here, if you are a person of sensitive and critical intellect, you may be purged of the unthinking prejudice of our age, which tells you that diversity consists in the superficial - in matter and not in mind.

- Tony Woodlief has always been one of my favorite writers and I still think a publisher out there ought to snap him up with a book contract. While not quite a book contract, Tony is now available in paper form. Raising Wild Boys into Men: A Modern Dad's Survival Guide can be ordered from the The New Pamphleteer. It would make a great Father's Day gift!