As Human Freedom Dangles Precariously from the Tree of Liberty…
...just what are the key elements that certifies that we are a free people, in charge of our own affairs?
That has been from the very beginning the down-deep belief common in America since 1787,...
When Madison Avenue Moved Heaven and Hell to Snare Millennials from the Abyss of...
My wife and I stumbled across a 2001-2002 drama series on one of our movie networks. It was called "Nero Wolfe" by Rex Stout, a product of the A&E Network. Stout wrote detective novels...
Original Grounds for the National Divorce Were Known in 1775
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...
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...
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...
Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)
Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if anything about the shoulders they...