Carl Sagan’s Endarkenment
On FB and elsewhere I have been reading tributes to Carl Sagan from people who praise him for his prophetic insight into America’s cultural decline. In fact, Carl Sagan was a primary symptom of American cultural declin
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White People Fighting
There is much about popular culture I struggle to explain and most of what I cannot understand I do not desire to learn. But I do think I have put my finger on the reason Yellowstone is so wildly popular.
Will there be a Christian World in the Future?
We see hurried people that come and go, avoiding giving the slightest importance to what is happening around them.
Wednesday’s Child: An Old New Order
A university friend of mine, Peter Baldwin, whose book on the pandemic I mentioned here some months back, has just come out with another. The title is Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History. Were I a libertarian, it would always sit on my bedside table, next to a tome of Ayn Rand and a sepia print of the Unibomber in a silver frame.
Utopias Unlimited, Conclusion
Gilbert was himself, a man of no particular party. He was as suspicious of progressive levelers as he was contemptuous of the conservative defenders of entrenched interests.
Utopias Unlimited, III: Slaves of Duty
There is nothing wrong with duty, but, under the sinister influence of Immanuel Kant, the public morality of the 19th century was dangerously deontological, that is, duty-bound.
Jerks 01.B: Peter Pans
In learning how not to be a Jerk, the hardest part is to listen to criticism from friends and colleagues who may be bigger Jerks than we are.
Brain-Teaser for Today
Question: What is the principal difference between President Biden and President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in the movie Idiocracy? I await your responses…..
Jerks 01.A–National Stereoptyes
Every human society has had its share of offensive or annoying people: busybodies and bores, poseurs and bullies, cheapskates and check-grabbers, hypocrites and egomaniacs. You might even be able to define some societies by the offensive characters they tend to produce or by the qualities they find most offensive.
My Jerkless Knee
Since the knee surgery of two weeks ago, I have been living in a fog of discomfort and confusion through which, occasionally, a dim light shines with enough brightness to permit me to revise a few pages or post something I have rewritten. I on’t feel terribly guilty about my sloth, but I have decided to share my tedium with others,
