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Free Content

5 Nov, 2020

Announcement: Sophocles Lives!

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I’ve just started rereading Sophocles’ Ajax.  I’m not sure why, apart from the need to keep reading Greek, but there is something that has always attracted me in the portrait of the staunch reactionary who goes mad, after being dishonored, and of his glib enemy, Odysseus, who learns humanity.  (I have a strong hunch that in his depictions of Odysseus–as in his Oedipus–Sophocles is dealing with the Athenian mentality of his own day, and that scholars who see the poet’s friend Cimon in Ajax are on the right track.) If five people promise to start reading it, I’ll start a...

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Wednesday's Child

4 Nov, 2020

Wednesday’s Child: The Dearth of Nations

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As the gentle reader may remember from previous posts, my wife is a concert pianist who, over the last few years, has been busy bringing to light the time capsule of classical music which Shostakovich left buried in Azerbaijan, largely in the form of his beloved Kara Karaev.  Now Azerbaijan is at war with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, while in Europe her concert engagements have been cancelled or postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus.  So evenings Olga and I sit in the kitchen, poor and sober, debating what can be said in appeals to potential sponsors of the recording...

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FF / Free Content / Heiner

1 Nov, 2020

Explaining the Electoral College to Europeans

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Here in the Old World, there is often a lot of debate about the Electoral College anytime a US Presidential election looms, but the truth is that so few people, even in the US, really know much about it (beyond what the media tells them). Hence my European friends often ask me what the deal is and what I think about the system.  The truth is that the history behind the Electoral College is pretty interesting, and gives us some insights into how America’s current form of government has traditionally tried to function.

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1 Nov, 2020

Trump Delendus Est, by Frank DeRienzo

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In his book, Tye digs up the corpse of Senator Joseph McCarthy with the intent of comparing his  maligned career to the current administration of Donald Trump.  The Democrats, who have gone full Marxist, could find no  better grave to desecrate and phantom to exorcise  than that of Joseph McCarthy.

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All Paid Subscribers / Seiler

27 Oct, 2020

Why We Need Trump to Win

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Some are saying this is the most consequential election in US  history, or at least the in lives of the oldest among us. I’ve heard that for many elections, beginning in 1964, when LBJ’s infamous “Daisy” ad warned Barry Goldwater would blow up the world. After AuH2O lost big and LBJ escalated the Vietnam War in 1965, conservatives bitterly quipped, “They said if I voted for Goldwater, we’d get war. I voted for Goldwater, and we got war.”

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Wednesday's Child

21 Oct, 2020

Wednesday’s Child: Paris Paranormal

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I had known Pierre only slightly, and my wife still less, as the acquaintance largely predated her arrival in my life, but it was Pierre on whom the story she told at dinner pivoted.   As the guests had been challenged to recount the “oddest” of their experiences, I debuted with the bizarre personal episode posted here last week.  And Olga, likewise dredging her memory, came out with the tale of Pierre.

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All Paid Subscribers / Seiler

20 Oct, 2020

Swamp Things

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When a scandal like that over Hunter Biden’s laptop surfaces, Americans get a little glimpse of how things really work in Washington, D.C. The Swamp Creatures – whom I have called the Rancid Ruling Elite – are utterly corrupt and just in it for the power and the money. For decades they have run the country into the ground while profiting handsomely.