The Transcendence of Liberty I’ve told this story often, when I attended a birthday party for a law professor at a university in Ukraine, while still a part of the USSR.. Around three tables pushed together, in a dimly lit…
Category: Natural Law
L’etat C’est Moi, the Second Attempt of the Rise of a Genuine Royal Class in America
First Bill Clinton, then Obama and then another Clinton. A dynasty of royals, not a regular political dynasty, mind you, but genuinely royals-of-the-mind, is now in launch mode in American politics….all premised on that singular comment by Louis XIV in…
“Papismus Lucifugus”; the Advent of Tribalism is Not Just in Our Politics, but in American Conservatism
A hat-tip to J D Vance’s heritage. I actually had this book, Papismus Lucifugus, one of only a few surviving. Dated 1668, it’s a record of a disputation between John Menzies of the (Church of Scotland) Divinity School at Marischal…