In striking out on our own, we did not intend to surrender the wisdom painfully acquired by earlier generations of classical liberals, libertarians, and small-government conservatives. If government interference in private life was a major source of social and moral dissolution, then it made no sense to call upon governments to save the family, restore community, or promote great art.
Trump is taking flak for the best action of his administration to date–refusing to support the Christian-killing Kurds.
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We sat together at one summer’s end,
That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,
And you and I, and talked of poetry.
Not a day goes by that I do not see the word “prolific” being misused. Today, for example, an online USA Today headline reads: “Convicted killer Samuel Little, who claims 93 murders, is ‘most prolific serial killer’ in US history, FBI says.” Similar offenses appeared in headlines for Inside Edition, the LA Times, and newspapers and television stations around the country.
I am exploring the possibility of a Greek adventure in January. The plan is for three to four days in Athens and roughly the same amount of time in the Peloponnese. The highlights of the stay in Athens would include the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum, the Archeological Museum, the ancient Agora, the Kerameikos Cemetery, and the Temple of Olympian Zeus. We are also considering a bus trip out to Cape Sounion to visit the Temple of Poseidon.
100 million Americans are calling on Congress to impeach the President, but not one in ten has the slightest idea of what impeachment is. Listen to the first installment to our primer on the process.
As it took shape, “paleoconservatism”—like all ideologies—was a piece of bric à brac, cobbled together with pieces from 1950’s liberalism that flew the false flag of conservatism, from which it took hostility to big government, public indecency, and abortion rights; from the misnamed ‘old right,’ from which it borrowed opposition to imperial wars; from the Libertarians, who strongly influenced—most obviously—our anti-imperialism, as well as the emphasis on individual liberty and non-governmental solutions to social problems, and from the populist traditions a suspicion of the ruling elite and a respect for the opinions of ordinary people whose brains had not been...
Friday is the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi. This crude poem–sometimes described as a piece of rhyming prose– is written in Umbrian, an Italian dialect distinct from but not too different from the Florentine Tuscan that Dante made the language of Italian literature
