There is no reason that America should have any serious conflict with the new Russia. They have tolerated the many provocations that our government has thrown at them in hope of eventual understanding. But there are powerful people pushing hostility against Russia…
A fantasy of what President Trump might do if he were a statesman. Of course, American society is no longer capable of producing a statesman.
American society is now in a revolutionary situation similar to the early events of the French and Russian Revolutions. It is a classic Leninist scenario.
The Swamp has not been drained. It is a massive and daunting job that is still to be done. The appointment of a couple of preppie Bush Republicans to the Supreme Court means little. That trick has been played so many times it is laughable. The misbehavior and radicalisation of the Left in recent months has led to predictions of increased Republican power after the November 2018 elections. Perhaps; but this will mean nothing unless the right kind of Republicans are elected.
I have always thought that Jefferson’s advocacy of the separation of church and state was in part inspired by his distaste for the political power of the Yankee clergy. Remember, the famous letter about “the wall of separation” was addressed to a group of Baptists in Connecticut, who were independent of that State’s established Puritan church. One can still find die-hard Calvinists who denounce Jefferson as an atheist. For some reason they never mention that John Adams became a Unitarian. Through the 19th century Jefferson remained a very popular symbol among the people and occasionally among writers, but New...
[Jefferson] thought that Americans had a unique opportunity to preserve free institutions if they were wise and virtuous. He did not believe that Americans were a Chosen People with a divine mission to spread freedom to all mankind. That idea was invented by the New Englanders who hated him and whom he despised.
“The task of the civilized intelligence is perpetual salvage.” Why has Western man lost his nerve and his sense? That is really the only important question of the day. Everything else that is happening in the world is merely a by-product of forces occupying the space made by the shrinking of the West. Or I should say “HOW has Western man lost his nerve and his sense?” The Why is always in the deep mystery of God’s time. The only way we can approach it is in describing the How. We might then hope to understand a little or...
I am not one of those who spends time reading or writing “tweets.” Life is too short and I am already the victim of too many forms of communication. However, a friend sent me a “tweet” that arrested my attention as illustrative of the sad state of our “democracy.” The tweeter, upset by President Trump’s apparent (and ill-advised) use of the word “covfefe,” tells the world: “Trump now claims his ‘covfefe’ tweet contained no typos. This is sociopathy. He must be impeached ASAP.” Note that this statement is not opinion or argument. It is an imperious demand for a transfer...
The Day-Spring from on High By the Rt. Rev. Paul C. Hewett Maitland FL: Exulon Elite 711 pp., $32.99 Many Christians long admired the American Episcopal Church, even those without its bonds. The Anglican faith was orthodox but with a certain amount of gentlemanly tolerance; it shared friendly borders with Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox, an ecumenical miracle; it could embrace to a degree the catholic, the evangelical, and the charismatic, and perhaps tame them a little; its language and music were wonders; it was associated with many of the greatest achievements and leaders of the English-speaking world; it gave us...
