Wednesday’s Child: The Moi Generation
I have always believed that peace on earth is an enemy of intellectual freedom, a morass of philistine life wherein ideals and principles sink into compromise and appeasement…
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Wouldn’t It Be Ironic if Nuclear War Started Under Trump?
The attack was not just by “Ukraine,” but by the CIA, which controls the SBU, their KGB
Greek I.17 WITH AUDIO AND Write in Greek!
Present and imperfect of the verb “to be”, enclitic words, and contrary to fact conditions.
Wednesday’s Child: Freedom, More or Less
Last week I sought to enlarge on an insight of Anthony Powell’s, arguing that individual liberty is something of a hermetic communion like serious literature.
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
Can Trump Bring Peace in Our Time?
The theme of my articles here is peace. Because the alternative is nuclear war. It’s the main reason I loathed Biden, and whoever really was running his regime.
Wednesday’s Child: Who Needs Freedom?
My father used to tell me how, when he was a boy in the 1930’s, he came upon a cobbler plying his craft in Moscow. The man was an Azeri, quietly industrious like many of his race and, just as important, perennially sober.
Old Wine in New Bottles, Part I: The Kids Are Not All Right [sic]
In any decent society, patterns of deference are the foundation of the social order: the young defer to the old, females defer to males, parents defer to children. Any senior member who allows his juniors or inferiors to treat him with contempt or indifference is undermining the order and potentially rearing a sociopath who will prey upon his fellows.
