Has anyone been able to explain “how” the ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids when most of the engineering skills they would have been required would not be discovered for millennia? Even the mathematics that would have supported their engineering technology was not supposedly…
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John Cleese, No Hope, No How, Explains Government Lawyers and Experts
John Cleese, of Monty Python fame, and who recorded CS Lewis “ScrewTape Letters” awhile back, is on a “No Hope” Tour this year. I’ll go see him in October in Richmond, unless Ralph Northem shuts it down, because, as this 2…
Putting the “SERVICE” Back into Public Service
A favorite subject of mine (from a 2011 series, The History of Government Employment, Part IV), “service” is an important theme in an important election year, which could, if we do things right, dictate the course of America for the next 30…
The Federal District of Detroitia
(Columbia is a feminine form of “Columbus”, FYI) I’ll try to be brief and avoid the snark, but this is an idea whose time has come and could be a winning plank in the Republican campaign legislative agenda for 2020. It…
A Brief Natural History of Historians; Telling a Horse from a Mule
While people are being hornswoggled about the good intentions of journalists, they also should consider similar intentions of some historians. You see, there are the historians who report insights and facts about the past, and there are the journalists who then bake these into confections using their own…