Apocryphal Wisdom
We have started the Book of Wisdom. It is even better than I recalled. We are doing two chapters a day, if anyone cares to join us.
We have started the Book of Wisdom. It is even better than I recalled. We are doing two chapters a day, if anyone cares to join us.
The murder of the United Health Care CEO raises more than one ethical question, and the approval of the killing expressed in some quarters gives us a hint of what to expect in the American future
Even before Assad’s prisons were opened, our official media were predicting instruments of torture and all the other accoutrements of a Gothic novel.
If there are readers who wish to resume the study of Italian, please respond to this announcement. And, if there is interest in beginning the study of ancient or modern Greek, please also let us know.
Refusal to fight may be cowardice and treason that darkens the soul of a single man, but the opposite mistake—an impetuous and reckless decision to make unnecessary war—may cost the lives of millions.
We have to deal with historical man, not the abstract man projected by libertarian economists, Marxist-Straussian theorists, or city-on-a-hill religious fanatics. Conservatives should always be on guard against the presumption that they have all the answers.
These musings on metaphysics and property, here revised and corrected, were first published in a magazine, when there was a magazine where such foolishness could be printed.