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.
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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.
Abortion: America’s Top Military Secret ?
Is abortion a key to U.S. military might? According to U.S. Navy veteran Allison Gill in the WaPo, “Overturning Roe would be disastrous for the U.S. military.” She starts with a horrible story, “When I was 21, I was drugged and raped violently while serving in the military, a crime that resulted in pregnancy.” She then got an abortion. Of course, more should be done to prevent such assaults. She then jumps to this conclusion, “Should Roe be overturned and access to abortion restricted for female service members across the United States, military readiness would be directly affected.” I’m not...
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
The Great Revolution, I: Introduction B
As human animals with large brain and capacity for conscious thought, we have senses that are attuned to the natural world.
Autodidact: Herodotus
Since the Persian Wars—like the Punic Wars, the Crusades, and the West’s ongoing struggle with Islam—serve to define who we are, it will be useful to reread Herodotus, particularly the books that are directly relevant to the cultural struggle between the West and its enemies.
The Great Revolution, Part I Introduction, Section A
My subject for this series is the Great Revolution that has obliterated our knowledge of human nature, eliminated the distinctions between man and beast, male and female, adult and child, just and unjust, beautiful and ugly, and re-invented the human race as a hybrid, part invertebrate and part robot.
Wednesday’s Child: Spleen Confit
Via Maqueda is a Spanish name, which the street takes from a viceroy of Sicily who was called – rather fetchingly, if you ask me – Bernardino de Cárdenas y Portugal, Duke of Maqueda. So originally the “que” was pronounced as “k,” but the Sicilians pronounce it the way an English speaker would read it.
The Media and the War
Just as Congress is approving $40 billion in new aid to blow up Ukraine, the U.S. media is starting to admit Russia is winning, as I have pointed out since shortly after the war began
Ritorno, Part IV: There and Back Again
If the main domestic objective of the government-engineered COVID panic was to alienate Americans from their families, churches, and communities, to make them depend even more completely on the state—an objective the political class has largely obtained….
