This “national divorce” series will continue with more essays, and as I will remind you, it has been a topic of mine for several years before Donald Trump, and which I have collected under the Category “Dark Alley” Congresswoman Marjorie…
Just How do We Sort Out This National-Divorce Talk? A Warning
In February, (2023), Congressional member Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a “National Divorce.” Actually, one has been evolving for several years now. The first thing to consider about “national divorces” is that they’re almost never mutually arrived at. What divides…
Linking Victor Davis Hansen’s “Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America” to the Law of Generations
Victor Davis Hansen’s “Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America”, reprinted here, explained in vivid, living color, what Americans have always found so inscrutable about the French Revolution. Mark Twain, as portrayed by Hal Holbrook, once quipped in expressing the American common…