You probably already know there are a few Keith Olbermann-types on the pro-Trump, Make America Great side of the ledger. But Yes, there is a difference; a big, big difference. You know Olbermann, he virtually disappeared in the national eye…
Category: Conservatism
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 anyone of genius who enters their…
“The Fountainhead” courtroom Speech, Ayn Rand
Again, I’m not Ayn Rand’s biggest fan, but this speech by architect Howard Roark, on trial for having blown up a housing project he designed in New York when another architect changed his design, has great bearing about the modern…