I haven’t talked about my old Cold War mentor Moses Sands in a few years. He moved to the higher pastures, and I mean that literally, in 2006. But back in 1998 he wanted me to help write a book about what…
Category: Bureaucrcy
Hillary Makes it Official, This is about Class, not Politics
Recently, Hillary Clinton gave her take on the Bernie Sanders voters, as being wide-eyed naifs still living in their parents’ basement. Since conservatives have partaken of these kinds of jests about those kids for years, but for other reasons, the distinction between the…
Don’t-Give-a-Damn’s as America’s Protected Religious Class
This is a chapter in my unfinished book, The Devil’s History of the United States I’ve often lamented the demise of public religious institutions, for that is an important part of the Foundation of the House. Moses Sands blamed much of…
Vain Men’s Thirst for Kings
(Timely, and unedited from a 2010 essay at RedState.com. Since then, they’ve changed, I haven’t.) A caution to the non-religious: In what follows I use religious references from the Old Testament. They are intended as metaphors, or teaching tools. Still, this…
We Need a Ben Franklin in America’s Board Room, and Newt’s the Man
Ben Franklin was 70 when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, and 81 when the Constitution was signed in 1787. He signed both. So, he was the original Ben Franklin in America’s first board room; the eldest, the…