Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish Nobel Prize academician who was many thing to many people; social scientist, economist, and classic social liberal of the 1940s and 50s. So far as I know, however, he had nothing to do with the…
Category: American Exceptionalism
Themes- “Consistency” (1947) by Kenneth Roberts (my Favorite Tory)
Note the publish date, 1947, and historically, about the Adams Administration era, 1797-1801, then compare with the same underlying problems we confront in American politics today. I’ll be doing a series on Themes in the American Apologetics series in upcoming weeks.…
American Apologetics
An Introduction “Apologetics” is generally defined as religious arguments originally used by early church fathers to defend what would eventually become Christian doctrine, to both non-believers who had no particular religious beliefs, an act of persuasion, and to others who had interpreted…
Mrs Brophy and the Ring Dang Doo
I’ve told stories of my mountain home before, and also stories about the differences between racial feelings about blacks and whites in the South and in the North at the time of Martin Luther King. We had two major coal towns living side by…
Revising Revisionist History on Twitter
The Problem: You probably don’t think about this very much, but you actually need to know stuff in order to qualify as a bone fide flag-loving Patriot. I don’t do Twitter very much, only follow about 1500 people, and a little…