“In all the long wars with the Dark Tower, treason has ever been our greatest foe.” In the modern world, we have plenty of dark forces to point to. Child murderers to the left of me; warmongers to the right;
Some define liberalism as being founded on a belief in a ‘universal man’, some common essential which, unless obscured by its refusal, is present in all persons. On this ground, liberalism asserts, no actual difference is discernable between Englishmen, Pakistanis,
Or R.L. Dabney on Northern Conservatism There is a sort of conservatism which has been popular ever since people recognized the difference between what we used to do and what we could do. Let us, in reference to that excellent
By breaking the family If you want to find the root of the West’s instability, it lies in the constant failure of the righteous as a whole to defend the family. Chesterton said of the family that it “may fairly
Parts One and Two laid out the usefulness of a metaphor for civilizations in history, the metric Scripture gives for understanding civilizations (I), and why several of the common genres of such metaphors are less than suited for purpose (II).
On the reaction to Rep. Massie’s second marriage I’m a writer. I’m also a reader. More, I read history, contemporary and otherwise. The sum of this is: give me facts about a person, and I can come up with some ugly explanations.
Not nearly as much as we’d like…. I frankly don’t believe I have electronic privacy. The government could look at anything with a potential internet connection and power. The program providers, in many cases, could do the same. Any camera
The Imperfections of the Competition As intimated in the first entry to this triple-feature, mankind has many, many metaphors to describe civilization. Coming up with one is a common part of promulgating a theory of history. Today, we’ll consider four
Writing serves a purpose beyond communication…. Writing serves a purpose beyond communication for me. I have a lot of ideas, many of them correct, some of them… not so much. That’s the standard human state, and I have no objections
A good book (with some flaws) Death Mask follows The Long Moonlight (reviewed here). Xerdes the thief is now a fugitive, on the run from the criminal empires he brought to a fever pitch, and his path lies across a vicious, potentially supernatural