Republicans Still Hate the South
Is anyone else tired of “conservative” Republicans like Ted Cruz, who are forever blaming the Democratic party for the KKK?
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: The Conspiracy Scam
Soon thereafter I received a call from my wife, informing me that Nikolai “has ADHD” and the school was proposing to “put him on Ritalin.
Augustine’s Confessions, Book I: 1-21 (Expanded 08.25)
The title is ambiguous. In ordinary classical Latin, confiteor means something like to acknowledge and error and/or concede a point as true. Ecclesiastical writers used it to mean something like “profess the faith.” Augustine, always the rhetorician–no matter how he strove to distance himself from his secular profession, plays upon both senses.
Religio Philologi: Augustine on Science and Magic
The lust of our eyes leads to a lust of the mind which then seeks to make experiments and gain knowledge
Ray Olson on Film: The 1980s
You could say that the 1980s were just more of the 1970s, as far as the movies went. Hollywood got lamer, the indies kept American cinema alive and interesting, past masters were retiring or dying.
Foreign Policy by Petulance
North Korea is a nuclear power. Little Rocket Man, Trump’s buddy, in 10 minutes could kill hundreds of thousands of people in Japan or South Korea, or kill everyone on U.S. bases in South Korea.
Wednesday’s Child: The Age of Plagiarism
Time was, people had ideals. These they copied as best they could –“plagiarized” is the term on my mind at the moment – using only their imagination to attain some semblance of parity.
The International Academy of Laputa
All of this is the background to the recent scandal over the death, apparently suicide, of Jason Ardray at Cambridge University.
