Trump and Netanyahu Against the Iranians
To me it seemed painfully obvious that Trump and Netanyahu had worked out a plan
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Greece in November
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
Old Wine in New Bottles, Preface Part I
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,
Southing: The South’s Gonna Do It Again
An uncharacteristic piece of optimism from the Southern Partisan in 1982, slightly edited and revised.
As You Like (Or Don’t) Like It
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.
Southing: On Real Liberty
This is a slightly edited and corrected verisio of a piece that appeared in The Southern Partisan in 1982.
Laying The Ghosts of Southern Nationalism
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.
Charity Begins at Home
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.
Game Plans
In a podcast of January 14, I was asked if Trump could actually accomplish some good for the American people. Partly joking, I answered:
