The most notable event of the consulship of Pompey and Crassus, however, was the political trial of Gaius Verres. As governor of Sicily (73-71) Verres had outdone all his predecessors and rivals in corruption and theft, and he could afford to retain the greatest legal and political talent of the day, the former consul and arch-conservative, Q. Hortensius Hortalus.
An Interview with Misa Djurkovic, a writer and political analyst with the Institute of European Studies, Belgrade. Part I: Τhe Immigration Crisis and Serbia 1. How has the Inundation of Islamic refugees affected Serbia? How many have actually crossed into Serbia? Do many stay or are they just passing through on the way to Hungary. For the time being more than 200, 000 of immigrants, mostly from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq have entered Serbia. Not all of them should be regarded as refugees or asylum seekers. Huge number of them are economic immigrants. At this point, all of them...
International travel has always been a chore, but in recent decades that chore has begun to equal one of the labors of Hercules. The blame lies in part to pointless security regulations and the TSA goons culled from the prisons, asylums, and housing projects from which they were recruited, in part to the airlines who, in packing fatter and fatter Americans into tighter and tighter places, have defied the laws of solid geometry, but in larger part to the travelers themselves. What people! Unwashed bodies bulging out of unwashed jeans, aging fat ladies whose decibels rise with the alcohol content...
Cicero is, in fact, one of the most important figures in our tradition: statesman and orator, rhetorical theorist, public philosopher, and a writer of marvelous letters that still give us a candid picture of insider politics that is unmatched to this day.
Habemus Oratorum Domum? Can Paul Ryan win the support of the House Freedom Caucus, the Republican Study Committee, and the Tuesday Group? If he can, forget the speakership, let’s talk sainthood, because unifying House Republicans counts as his first miracle. E. Christian Kopff sent me this gem, written by one Jim Geraghty from the NR website. I don’t read National Review in any form, print, internet, or the original crayon, so I don’t know who Mr. Geraghty is or if he has a whimsical turn of mind or if he is possibly fond of ridiculing the ignorance of learned languages...
PC Do you believe the neoconservative dominance of mainstream discourse of US foreign policy is slowly coming to an end or we simply seeing a generational shift? Also, have the neoconservatives in your judgement played a role in instigating the current crisis in Ukraine? TJF The neoconservatives in themselves are of little or no importance. They do not formuulate policy, they merely repeat the slogans of the Cold War Democratic Party and put a slight conservative spin. Their great success was in making an alliance with American Evangelical Zionists, who have been taught to see the world...
Thomas Fleming was interviewed in August by Mike Krupa of Polonia Christiana. For readers of Polish, the inteveiw is available here. For those less fortunate, we have posted the original exchange in English., PC After almost 8 years of Barack Obama’s presidency, what kind of country is the United States? TJF When Barack Obama was elected President, reaction was divided along party lines. Democrats, especially those who belonged to ethnic minorities, expected rapid improvement in their condition and in their opportunities for advancement. They also expected a quick end to the military adventurism that had characterized his predecessor’s administrations. Republicans, by contrast, feared...
Governor Kasich has finally got himself into the news. Falling asleep in the debate did not work.so now he turns to that last refuge of corrupt Republican: religion. Accused of pandering for votes by supporting socialized medicine, he offers to give his critics free copies of the Bible. Looks like this is one more cause of a good Catholic boy who has followed the papacy into non-revolutionary socialism. This is one we cannot blame on Pope Francis or Paul VI or even on Leo XIII. Kasich abandoned the Catholic Church for materialist hedonism, and when he found he needed some...
In this first draft of the Roman section, I am only going to list a few indispensable works with a few suggestions on translations. As the weeks and months go by, I’ll be updating this and other sections that are posted.
Good grammar is said to be all the rage on dating sites. This story would be good news, had it been reported anywhere but in the Wall Street Journal, whose columnists and editors do not appear to know the difference between grammar and spelling. They lead the story with a young man who was put off by a potential date who wrote him a confirmation of their first meeting: “I’ll see you their.” Poor Mr. Cohen—a chump more interested in spelling than romance. The young lady has made a fortunate escape. One is almost tempted to agree with the Columbia University...
