Mr. Autodidact Is Asked : Where to Begin?
An academic friend about go on a sabbatical in England, writes to ask how he should remedy his deficiency in Greek and Roman history and wonders if it is not the sort of question I frequently receive.
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Three Faces of Democracy: Cleisthenes, Jefferson, and Lincoln, Part I
This is the first part of a talk (here revised) given to a group of Telos editors and contributors at Cooper Union in New York. With the exception of Clyde Wilson and Sam Francis, the other speakers were Frankfurt School Marxists. This unlikely mix was stirred up by my good friend the late Paul Piccone.
Don’t Worry, Trump Still Is Pro-Life
Some pro-lifers are in a pother about President Trump supposedly abandoning the pro-life cause. I’ve been a pro-lifer my whole life. Fought the battles in the trenches since 1972, when in Michigan we defeated a pro-abortion Measure on the ballot when I was 17.
Poems Submitted to Poetry Contest
These are the poems submitted to the poetry contest. I am soliciting the votes of all readers not related to the contestants. The only contestants eligible for the prizes are those who were in attendance, but I also welcome comments on the contributions of Travis Berg and Asa Plinch
Wednesday’s Child: How Not to Live
In the wake of recent events in the Middle East, George Gilder, some of whose thoughts all those years ago I thought original enough to publish in the magazine I was editing, has just updated his book The Israel Test. I had not read the book when it was first published, in 2009, and now I thought I’d catch up with the intellectual evolution of the acclaimed author of Wealth and Poverty.
Trump + RFK Jr. + Tulsi = Victory and Realignment
other places Trump would win. My Democrat relatives and friends back in Michigan were backing Trump. They were Reagan Democrats back in the day, favoring him over the weak Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Walter Mondale in 1984; as well as Bush over Michael Dukakis in 1988
Don’t Cook Bacon without Wearing Pants
Some nagging thoughts on the Secret Service’s explanation to Congress around the events of the so-called Trump assassination attempt
Conventional Blues
Reading an account of Oprah Winfrey hectoring the horde of Democrats and mocking cat ladies, I thought to look up the celebrities who addressed the Republican Convention.
Wednesday’s Child: A Splendid Thing
When there’s no money in the house, as happens often in the lives of a couple who are both what the Italian taxman calls liberi professionisti – people with no regular income, to you and me – I console myself and my family with the thought that however little we are paid for our labors, it’s all in gold.
Democrats Exterminating Their Own Future Voters
he USA Today headline: “Abortions at the DNC? Planned Parenthood bus providing no-cost service and vasectomies: The organization posted on X that it will provide free medication abortion, emergency contraceptives and vasectomies through its mobile health bus Monday and Tuesday.”
