Art For What’s Sake? Part III: Questioning the Duck
You’re making an exception for country music, because you happen to like it. Are you seriously suggesting that a good song lyric is on par with great poetry?”
Category: Fleming
Who’s Sorry Now?
The American ruling class and its frontmen in the media are indulging in one of their periodic orgies of anxiety. How can a known terrorist have been allowed to enter the United States, make his way to Texas, and terrorize a synagogue?
Art for What’s Sake, Part II: Ducking the Question
At this point, however, we are not yet prepared to deal with the question of whether or not beauty is in the eye of the beholder or whether value is subjective or objective.
Poem: Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
This poem is one of Swift’s masterpieces. His savage wit, his ruthless dissection of human motives, his arrogance–and his self-contempt–all combine to produce a masterful satire.
Art For What’s Sake? Part One
An untechnical conversation on the meaning of art, set in a Middle American saloon with pop music blasting over the speakers.
Restricting Self-Defense
To most of us living in postmodern times, these Germanic customs seem crude and dangerous, and the reluctance to consider the moral questions is a fatal weakness:
Carl Sagan’s Endarkenment
On FB and elsewhere I have been reading tributes to Carl Sagan from people who praise him for his prophetic insight into America’s cultural decline. In fact, Carl Sagan was a primary symptom of American cultural declin
Restricting Self-Defense, Part II
Every animal seems to “know” the two commandments of nature: Survive and propagate, and each creature seeks to preserve its own identity and to transmit it genetic heritage through time.
Ask The Autodidact:
The civil right to choose the sort of education your children receive remains of paramount importance….
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Restricting Self-Defense
Ancient Romans, more than any other Indo-European people, attempted to restrict the natural duty of self-defense and the natural desire for revenge, but even there the primitive traditions of self-help yielded only gradually to a centralized legal apparatus.
