If, as I have argued, following Lewis, MacIntyre, and the Christian and classical traditions, what our children read and how is just as important as our global standing as a nation; and if it is true that we have been debunking our children/selves for generations, the inevitable question must be confronted: What should our children …
Talleyrand was a French diplomat who survived all the way from before the Revolution to Napoleon’s reign. His biography is called Talleyrand: The Art of Survival. Therein I read these words: [Mirabeau’s] death left an ever-widening gulf between the throne and the radicals into which the nation was about to be violently swept. Talleyrand hoped …
As you know, America is a deeply divided country because there are educated, progressive people (EPP) and there are hicks and rubes (HAR). Now we get to wait out the election results to see how much better the EPP are than the HAR. I would like to consider for a moment the difficult question of …
“It would be a considerable fraud to do a book on American government which talked as if the constitution were still being substantially observed, that pretended that when Presidents took the oath of office they intended to observe the bounds set by the Constitution, that Congressmen recited their pledges with the same intent, and that …
Years back I was hanging out with a group of libertarians who wanted to create a movement. They wanted a constitutional amendment that prohibited the government from being involved in education. In effect, they wanted to outlaw public education because they believed that it destroyed American freedoms. I think today that it was a charming …
World War II was progressing in earnest 80 years ago this week, so I have been tracking it with short readings and a video series on YouTube. Last summer, Germany took over Czechoslovakia without much of a shot fired, and in September, allied with Russia, they took over Poland. Over the last month or so, …
It’s election day in these United States of America. After much speech-making and hand-wringing and soul-searching the day has come. We’ll take to the polls and cast our respective votes for the next leader of the so-called Free World. This is a momentous occasion and a great responsibility. Years from now, centuries even, people will …
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