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.
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...
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...
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?
A girl at the age of twelve (or younger) may be physically mature enough to conceive a child, but is she intellectually or morally mature enough to think through an issue. She is not allowed to drive or vote or sue in court or be convicted of murder as an adult. Why? Because, as nearly everyone with any intellectual maturity understands, children—male and female—are not well formed enough to be held entirely accountable for their actions.
The President has his virtues as an entertainer, but no one tops Mantan Moreland and Ben Carter.
Why didn’t your teachers make you read more Shakespeare? Maybe it was because “the bard” is an excellent antidote to the regime’s indoctrination.
