Argentina Smolders, and the PRC Fuels the Fire by Russell Gordon,
Argentina is undergoing one of its recurring increases in violent crime and social implosion, by some accounts worse than those of the crises-plagued 90’s.
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The Great Revolution: III: Equality, Part B: Stoic Universalism
It is easy to see how an empowered sense of equality might lead a blind law student into feeling justified at demanding, at public expense, a reader to help him get through his courses. The question, though, is why do people who are not blind acquiesce in the foolishness?
Free Peter Navarro!
Before he joined the Trump administration, economist Peter Navarro of the University of California, Irvine was one of the sources for my articles on the economy. At age 72, he just was arrested and put in leg irons for refusing to cooperate with the Show Trial known as the Jan. 6 Committee….
Will Europe Backtrack on Ukraine? It’s only a Matter of Time
The war in Ukraine is not going the way the West expected, despite what is being said in the context of the hybrid war that usually accompanies military conflicts. The Biden government, after cancelling overnight Donald Trump’s isolationist policy and waking up the monster of inflation, is watching in confusion and bewilderment.
Wednesday’s Child: Tony’s Tale
For me a walk through Palermo, with or without the baby in his pram, would be incomplete without greeting Tony. I knew his late father, who died of cancer some years ago, but then who didn’t?
What ‘Peace Dividend’?
The Financial Times, which has moved from moderate liberal a few years ago to warmonger, titled a new story “Russian menace brings abrupt end to the west’s ‘peace dividend’”
The Talkies: One-offs
Four of these movies are genuine anomalies for their makers. The fifth is the best film by a very famous and successful director-writer whose other movies—and I’ve seen nearly all of them—reliably disappoint me.
The Great Revolution: III: Equality, Part A
As a virtue expressed in Aristotelian terms, it is the mean between the character that invests everything into the distinction between me-and-mine and everything else and the character that rejects all distinction. In Jacobin terms, however, liberty, equality, and fraternity represent either or both of these three baneful extremes.
Brainwashed America
Why would a dumb kid from Simi Valley, California, want to kill Brett Kavanaugh?
Wednesday’s Child: The Palazzo
Italian is a language not averse to populism, apparently, because the word palazzo means both a nobleman’s palace, such as the one where Cinderella crashed the party, and an apartment building inhabited by lowly plebes, such as the one where I live.
Augustan England
