This “national divorce” series will continue with more essays, and as I will remind you, it has been a topic of mine for several years before Donald Trump, and which I have collected under the Category “Dark Alley” Congresswoman Marjorie…
Just How do We Sort Out This National-Divorce Talk? A Warning
In February, (2023), Congressional member Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a “National Divorce.” Actually, one has been evolving for several years now. The first thing to consider about “national divorces” is that they’re almost never mutually arrived at. What divides…
Linking Victor Davis Hansen’s “Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America” to the Law of Generations
Victor Davis Hansen’s “Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America”, reprinted here, explained in vivid, living color, what Americans have always found so inscrutable about the French Revolution. Mark Twain, as portrayed by Hal Holbrook, once quipped in expressing the American common…
The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America by Victor David Hansen (May 8, 2023)
The decade-long French Revolution that broke out in 1789 soon devolved into far more than removing the monarchy, as it became antithetical to the earlier American precedent. American notions of liberty and freedom were seen as far too narrow, given…
When Americans Die for People they have Never Seen
Silence About six miles from Maastricht, in the Netherlands, lie buried 8,301 American soldiers who died in “Operation Market Garden” in the battles to liberate Holland in the fall and winter of 1944. Every one of the men buried…