Donald Trump, after plunging the world into poverty, misery, violence, and bigotry, is now using his evil powers to create storms that will destroy the goddess Gaia. This is truly the Clash of the Titans. Be on the look-out for the sequel, as the Evil Trump takes on Satan himself, defeats his master, and rules the universe.
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We are fortunate in having the poems of Theognis, a Megarian conservative aristocrat who lived through this period and sighed for the good old days.
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The name of Hesiod was often coupled with that of Homer, though the two are different expressions of the Greek mind and temperament. While Homer writes of aristocratic warriors, Hesiod, in his surviving works, is more concerned with expounding rustic life and its values and with making coherent sense of the gods. As a Greek writer, he was the first agrarian but also the first theologian and the godfather of philosophy.
This reading list (very much a work in progress) is offered in the hope that it will help families, schools, and people of all ages to read some of the really valuable books in the American, British, European, and classical traditions.
In past years, I have from time to time attempted to write and post a diary of my reading. Unfortunately, I always tried too hard, picking books I thought would either interest or improve my readers. This time, I am going to note, simply, erratically, and occasionally relevantly, what I am reading and whatever stray thoughts have cropped up.
Lest you should think that verse shall die,
Which sounds the Silver Thames along,
Taught on the wings of Truth, to fly
Above the reach of vulgar song;
Anyone with one eye half open is aware that American cities have become jungles of violence and sewers of vice. Unfortunately, most of the remedies proposed are worse than the disease. The only possible way out lies with changes more radical than Eastern Europe undertook at the end of the Cold War.
Chris Cuomo has finally succeeded in attracting public attention. Cuomo was with his family in a bar on Shelter Island, New York, when a Dittohead stranger approached him and made the mistake of calling him “Fredo”—a not very imaginative nickname coined, apparently, by Rush Limbaugh. Cuomo exploded
