In the film “Out of Africa” (1985) there was a fleeting scene of the male star, Robert Redford, cranking up an early Victrola and putting a record on, to lure an ape. The music was Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A…
Author: vassar
Ben Shapiro and the Simpsons
Updating a May, 2016 essay I wrote about the millennial “Saving Ben Shapiro” I can unequivocally pronounce him “found”! I thought he was perilously close to becoming lost due to the major rot of recent generations; self-adoration and a down-the-nose…
Assassins and America’s Coming Mental Breakdown
(A Teaching) Bet you didn’t know that the title term assassins comes from the Arab word, hashish, which was a very potent drug known all the way back to the Middle Ages and the Crusades? Some say they came from…