For the average Scottish or English reader, Waverley must have been an exhilarating backwards trip through time and history, which enabled him to see both the feudal and tribal loyalties of Scots who adhered to the Stuart cause in much the same way their ancestors had flocked to the standards of Wallace and the Bruces.
To me it seemed painfully obvious that Trump and Netanyahu had worked out a plan
We are tentatively planning a small group trip to Greece of about 10 days for November 2025. The rough plan is to arrive and spend perhaps three nights in Athens and see the usual sights, then a bus will take us to Nauplion/Nafplio on the East coast of the Peloponnesus and from there visit Mycenae and Epidauros, and perhaps Tiryns and/or Nemea
After this tedious exposition, we shall get down to such questions as whether or not people who use cell phones in restaurants should suffer summary and immediate executions,
An uncharacteristic piece of optimism from the Southern Partisan in 1982, slightly edited and revised.
We are planing to film a series of book discussions on the theme, The Uses of Diversity, that is, on how people and societies respond to adversity.
This is a slightly edited and corrected verisio of a piece that appeared in The Southern Partisan in 1982.
This is an uncut version, minus adlibs, of a talk given at a program given by the Abbeville Institute in Columbus, Georgia, February 20-23, 2025. It has been hastily revised and corrections are welomed.
The worst ethical mistake made by Enlightenment “intellectuals” was their embrace of the abstraction of global citizenship. We big-brained apes are slow learners, and it takes most of us a long time to acknowledge the humanity of strangers.
