I Had a Dream
Lying awake, I half-dreamed a novel plot in which an ordinary man dies, technically, on the operating table. The doctors revive him, and after weeks of slow and painful recovery, he goes back to his old life.
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Wednesday’s Child: Who Benefits from “Cui Bono?”
Let me be honest with the gentle reader. The idea of this post has been plagiarized by me from a site called EUvsDISINFO, where an article with the above title appeared a few days ago. I do not often plagiarize, which says less about my morals as a scholar than about the state of modern journalism, but I found that article exceptionally interesting.
Real Supreme Court Reform
As America goes through another paroxysm of Supreme Court mania since the death of Ruth Abortion Ginsburg, I though I’d advance a reform of the court I don’t think anyone else has devised: Make the court comprised of the chief justices of the 50 states. So the court would expand from nine to 50. And it would meet for one month every two years.
Will Joe Biden Even Make It?
This was an amazing statement by Kamala Harris: “A Harris administration, together with Joe Biden as the president of the United States – a Biden-Harris administration – will have access – provide access—to $100 billion in low-interest loans and investments for minority business owners.”
Wednesday’s Child: Of Clubs and Cudgels
In Les Visiteurs, one of my favorite movies of all time – I once showed it to Dr. Fleming, who said, after an astonished pause, that “this is the most reactionary film I’ve ever seen” – there is a moment when the hero, a medieval knight who has stumbled into the twentieth century, is being shown the Larousse encyclopedia entry on his illustrious family. “Who is this?” he asks about a descendant of his who lived in the eighteenth century. “Oh, he was a famous revolutionary.” And what does that mean, the knight persists. “He wanted to kill the king.”...
Poem: Pletho on Prayer
Pletho had concealed his growing attachment to what he thought was the old religion of the Greeks, though it was in fact NeoPlatonic Neopaganism, but some part of his explicitly pagan work The Laws came to the attention of his more Orthodox friends. However the last fragment of the Roman Empire had more on its hands in the 1450’s than a brilliant pagan
Wednesday’s Child: Hell and a Purgatory
September must be allegory month, and fittingly one of the films now the talk of the Venice Film Festival is an offering from the Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky entitled “Dear Comrades.” Its subject is the massacre of striking workers at Novocherkassk, a city near Rostov-on-Don, in 1962, and in fairness it ought to be said that a 2012 TV miniseries, entitled “Once Upon a Time in Rostov,” had done that subject ample justice, notwithstanding that it was made in the first year of what will enter history books as Putin’s Terror. But Konchalovsky regards himself as an artist, and hence...
Trump Unleashed
I’m sure you’re heard the totally fake news about Trump supposedly insulting American troops, calling them “losers” and “suckers” Scott Adams totally refutes them on many points on his Friday podcast, starting at 27:00, calling it the “Losers and Suckers Hoax.” But he also notes this hoax will be devastatingly effective against Trump, as were the previous Fine People Hoax and the Russia Collusion Hoax. But I think this latest massive lie will unleash Trump to improvise a total war on Biden and the Democrats. Campaigns can be rough, such as LBJ’s 1964 “Daisy Girl” ad, implying Republican Barry Goldwater,...
Wednesday’s Child: To Skin a Cat
“No matter how totalitarian is Putin,” one of our readers has asked in response to last week’s post, “is there any other way to keep Russia from falling into the hegemonic abyss represented by our deracinated Western leaders?” The question, to me, is hardly new, at least when raised rhetorically.
Audio Lecture: Losing Property and Liberty by Dr. Thomas Fleming
Dr. Fleming talks about property and ownership. Do you really own it or can it be taken away?
