Take Five: The Streets of Baltimore
If Black lives really matter, why do Black people continue to support Elijah Cummings, Al Sharpton, and the criminal thugs who are destroying their cities?
Author: Thomas Fleming
Globalism Begins at Home–The North American Union
The NAU is an alleged plot to merge the three nations of North America—the United States, Canada, and Mexico—into a union that will function something like the European Union. If the first step toward unification is represented by the “NAFTA Highway”—a free-trade hole in the American border stretching from Mexico to Canada proposed by former Texas Governor and Bush family representative Rick Perry—the apogee will be the issuance of a new common currency, the Amero.
Donald the Duce?
This morning at breakfast, my wife asked me what Piers Morgan meant in calling Donald Trump a Fascist. Without having read—or even intending to read the column—I was able to state with total conviction.
“Nothing.”
Get Back, Donald
Donald Trump has put his big foot, once again, into his bigger mouth. He must be crazy, telling immigrants to go back where they came from, just because they openly declare their hatred for the country that has taken them in. Even Trump’s American friend in the UK, Piers Morgan, has called him on the carpet.
Maurice Barrès and the Recovery of National Identity, II
In his novel Les déracinés (1897), Barrès chronicled the adventures of a group of boys at his own lycée in Nancy. Their philosophy teacher, brilliant and ruthless, instills in them vast, almost Napoleonic ambitions to put their talents into the service of the ongoing revolutionary liberal tradition. This is a late reflection of the tradition of Romantic heroism that usually ends disastrously in fiction. Remember Julien Sorel? Raskolnikov? What happens to the boys in Paris is the subject of the novel. Some become dissolute; others are reduced to poverty; but all begin to collaborate on a journal of the...
The Jaundiced Eye, #2
White people in Detroit got angry when they discovered that, if they wanted to attend a rap concert, they would be charged more than persons of any other color. Why am I not outraged? I think any reasonable person would think the poor chumps should be fined and jailed for buying a ticket. The US Women’s Soccer Team is demanding Equal Pay. I thought they were feminists. Shouldn’t it be Equal Pay for Equal Play, in which case they should be playing against men’s teams. Anyone remember Hank Junior’s line, “I’m not a soccer man, I’m an Oilers’ fan.”? A...
Nationalism: Maurice Barrès and the Recovery of Identity
Until the end of his life Maurice Barrès was the great exponent of French nationalism, indeed he was the founder of the modern French nationalism that is conservative and patriotic, instead of as a Jacobin or a Marxist. What happened?
