One Ring to Rule Them All, Part First Ayn Rand identified and described them in 1964, as both a condition and a threat. If you have a shelf of select references, her book of essays from 1971, Return of the…
Category: How Things Work
Wikipedia and the Killing of History, a Guide
This will be a short note to highlight a link to a subject I researched for a commentary about Manifest Destiny mentioned in historian Bernard DeVoto’s book 1846, the Year of Decision (1943). Almost no American student, history major or…
Manifest Destiny
You’ve no doubt heard the term “Manifest Destiny”, as referring to the zeitgeist of our Nation as it expanded Westward, more specifically as Americans lined up wagon train after wagon train to emigrate to Oregon and California in the 1840s…
California…Proof that “Sky Determines”
This below is a letter I found from the son of prominent doctor in Springfield, Illinois, who had moved to California a year earlier, proving the notion that “Sky determines” the way a culture and society will turn out. If…
His Lordship, Her Ladyship; the Crimes of Class
As we’re clearly seeing today, but have been witnessing the past 70 years, only without serious calculation, has been the growth of a class-based society not unlike that of the old royal systems of Europe. Once mostly observed in politics,…