“War,” it has been asserted, “never changes.” The sentiment is old and worn, found in government report and video game and meme all around. Many of its iterations elaborate. “War never changes. It only becomes more bloody and brutal,” one US
I do not trust judges, as a category, nearly as far as I can throw them. Judges are, as a rule, biased, trained in secularism, steeped in governmental power, blind to or participant in abuse, deferential to the government, and
The basic theory of the Epstein file and similar operations (whether you think they’re intelligence or not) seems at first glance to be blackmail. Get the big names and the big money to do really heinous deeds (though, note, they’ve
Killing children is naturally a topic people have strong feelings about. At large in our culture, this debate plays out between two diametric opposites. On the one side, those who advocate killing children in order to preserve a more pleasurable
This is part of a mixed series between my Substack and this website, complete with a jumbled posting order. Go here for the first in the series (I, II). The next article in Islander #5 is an intriguing argument by
Men always want more power. Separation of powers, as Montesquieu laid it out, is a means of playing this cupidity against itself. The American implementation is not so focused on the balancing of classes as Montesquieu was (albeit some element
Perhaps it is strange that I, a Tennessean and an American, should write my first candidate-specific political article on a British politician like Rupert Lowe. At any rate, I’ve been following British politics for a while now, seeing their tailspin
Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle! – Ps. 24:8 In these days of renewing war, many a man feels himself equipped with the secret to military success, the tech or
Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book II: Of the Rights of Things commences with a brief discussion of the origin of property. Therein he states, quite rightly, that the Dominion Mandate of Genesis 1:28 is “the only true
As per last week, the universal man does exist, for we must have a universal which the word ‘man’ refers to. The universal man does not exist, inasmuch as (contra liberalism) men are not interchangeable without regard for their history