I have been dragging my heels too long and need to finish the second volume of Properties of Blood. As a stimulus to action, I am going to be posting every week some selections. This discussion, which will be in several parts, is devoted to collective violence.
This is an uncut version, minus adlibs, of a talk given at a program given by the Abbeville Institute in Columbus, Georgia, February 20-23, 2025. It has been hastily revised and corrections are welomed.
In this lesson, we are introduced to the imperfect tense in the active voice.
The worst ethical mistake made by Enlightenment “intellectuals” was their embrace of the abstraction of global citizenship. We big-brained apes are slow learners, and it takes most of us a long time to acknowledge the humanity of strangers.
Remember that we have learned two types of adjectives, the first being words with masculine singular in -o and feminine singular in -a, and the second being words ending in -e in both masculine and feminine singular and -i in the plural.
As I indicated in the previous lessons, in feminine nouns, which originally ended in long A, that A becomes H in Attic Greek except when preceded by ε, ι, ρ. This only affects the singular forms.
This essay, published 35 years ago, completed the process by which we were expelled from the conservative movement and expunged from history.
Although largely forgotten these days, John Gould Fletcher was a very famous poet in the 1920s, and it was a great coup for the Southern Agrarians to have included his essay on Southern education in I’ll Take My Stand.
In a podcast of January 14, I was asked if Trump could actually accomplish some good for the American people. Partly joking, I answered:
