I’ll get to Donald Trump eventually, since there’s an election on. But the question is, first, Do nations need Heroes? Thomas Carlyle, the 19th Century English philosopher answered that question with a resounding “Absolutely.” In 1842 he did a series…
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…
Or Raising Manhattan. Try Nob Hill. Pick a city, any city. In fact, pick a county seat. They all started with the wealthiest homes, then working their way down to the tracks, then to the other side of the tracks.…