This is updated to 2025 to note the changing of the guard, and the new doors now available to reshape our Republic. A law student takes his date, a med student, to Ruby Tuesday’s for dinner. In the course of…
Category: Elitism and Class
The Nuremberg Trial, 1945-1946, a Model for Things to Come
Below is attached the 2000 film “Infamy on Trial” which covers the thinking behind the Nuremberg Trials, as well as a picturing of how the Trial Process developed, primarily in the minds of the Americans and English legal minds.…
“Papismus Lucifugus”, the Advent of Tribalism in Not Just in Our Politics, but in American Conservatism
I actually had this book, one of only a few surviving. Dated 1668, it’s a record of a disputation between John Menzies of the (Church of Scotland) Divinity School at Marischal College in Aberdeen and an English Jesuit named Francis…
Suzanne by Leonard Cohen, 1973, When Drugs Didn’t Always Mean Teat-Fits
Youth today may never heard of Leonard Cohen. I recommend you look Leonard up, he was a poet and balladeer during the Vietnam War, and sang with folk stars such as Judy Collins who I’ve featured here at this…
The Timeline of Freedom, How and Why
I want to tell this story as it was seen and heard the first time in a classroom filled with black mothers, and their babies in a nursery across the hall….in the 1990s. In 1996 I began teaching a…