Dumb versus Dumber–The Gun Control Debate
Want to reduce irrational violence? Empower parents and shut down Hollywood.
Author: Thomas Fleming
The Great Revolution: III: Equality, Part B: Stoic Universalism
It is easy to see how an empowered sense of equality might lead a blind law student into feeling justified at demanding, at public expense, a reader to help him get through his courses. The question, though, is why do people who are not blind acquiesce in the foolishness?
The Great Revolution: III: Equality, Part A
As a virtue expressed in Aristotelian terms, it is the mean between the character that invests everything into the distinction between me-and-mine and everything else and the character that rejects all distinction. In Jacobin terms, however, liberty, equality, and fraternity represent either or both of these three baneful extremes.
Brainwashed America
Why would a dumb kid from Simi Valley, California, want to kill Brett Kavanaugh?
The Lower Depps
A senile and corrupt President presides over a ruined economy and risks nuclear war with Russia, while the American people stay tuned to Heard v. Depp v. Heard. A 15 minute podcast on America’s celebrity universe.
The Great Revolution, II C: Platonic Mistakes
Knowledge is power, so the proverb goes, but it can also be weakness. If human beings knew they were going to die in a few days, some few perhaps might take the opportunity to reflect on their lives and make the most of the time they had; more would give free rein to their wildest appetites; and perhaps the greatest number would fall into acedia and despair.
Biden and Taiwan Excerpt from Podcast
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Biden and Taiwan, Gaffe or Guardian?
A ten minute podcast: Biden’s bungling on Taiwan illustrates one of the worst flaws in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy.
The Great Revolution: Reason and Tradition, Part B
If a tradition goes back far enough, it is generally because it corresponds, however roughly, to some reality, while by contrast bright ideas spawned by pure reason are all too often no more grounded in reality than phrenology or the literary speculations of Dr. Freud.
The Great Revolution, II: Reason and Tradition
Skeptical of propaganda and the sentimentalism of human rights and progress, so-called palaeoconservatives (a term that has lost all utility) might be attacked for their cold-blooded rationality. Instead, they have been more typically criticized for their supposedly romantic attachment to tradition
