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Sobran's Cynosure
Because the signal star in the constellation Ursa Minor is the North Star, the Cynosure, as it is also called, has served as a guide for travelers and the lost for centuries. Because it is beautiful in its own right, it has given its name to anything that attracts by its brilliance.
Many of our readers have found the definitions of Joe Sobran to be interesting in themselves for finding their way through the murk of modern rhetoric. And many of those same readers have enjoyed their sparkle for their own sake.
I invite you to dip in frequently, therefore, to Sobran's Cynosure, sometimes to be guided by the entries and sometimes merely to enjoy them. I hope to be adding to them frequently.
--The Webmaster
anti-Semite: a person who's hated by Jews
bribe: an irregular transaction through which the citizen may get his money's worth of service from the government
coalition: any alliance of implicitly socialist groups (NR)
Cold-War rhetoric: blaming the Soviet Union for international tensions (NR)
humanity: man as conceived by socialism. All humanity is presumed to be at least latently socialist. (NR)
human needs: socialist or redistributive programs (NR)
ideology: nonsocialist point of view. The Hive, however, presents itself as comprising many ideologies. (NR)
imperialism: international influence opposed to socialism (NR)
labels: clear identification. People in the Hive like to say they reject labels. (NR)
liberation: release from constraints of nonsocialist traditions (NR)
multiculturalism: the refusal to take any culture seriously
peace: enfeeblement of nonsocialist powers (NR)
political: overt. Openly socialist groups are political organizations. (NR)
priorities: subordination of anti-socialist to pro-socialist tendencies (NR)
progressive: favorable to, or tending toward, socialism (NR)
social justice: control of national wealth by a socialist regime (NR)
strident: tactlessly candid about real issues at stake. Overt socialism invites labeling by the enemy. On the other side, Cold-War rhetoric is always strident. (NR)
The notation (NR) indicates that the definition first appeared in Joe Sobran, "Buzzwords," National Review, July 9, 1982, p. 833.
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