The Daily Poke in the Eye: Notes on the Righteous “Screw You”
In the 1840s, in one of his lectures on "Heroes", Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish philosopher, used the term "skeptical dilettantism" to describe how that army of ne'er-do-well, half-baked intellectuals will collectively move to destroy...
G K Chesterton on “Democracy in America” as seen by Jefferson and Lincoln and...
From "The Eternal Left's War on American Excepitonalism" (2018) and Alexis De Toqueville, in 1831,
When De Toqueville came to America and wrote his famous books on democracy, his purpose was to persuade the French...
The Left Must be Stopped
(The following is a post from Haystack, author of the Post-Covid Decalogues, Pts I-III, appearing over the past several days. About the larger Game at hand, beyond police-state tactics around the country, it goes...
Our System of Federalism and the Mess it Sometimes Creates
The notion of federalism is that the Constitution grants the states the leeway to set up their own laboratories about governing that do not conflict with the rights it guarantee to the People, (Art...
First Principles about America; First Questions
Is America an accident? A freak of Nature? Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design?
I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of that question here as that requires an inquiry into philosophy...
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...