Poetry by Arthur Clough
As I sat at the café, I said to myself,
They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Homeless, Homeless
Ghettos are made by people of heavily criminalized low cultures destroying their environment, which in turn raises more criminals.
Ghettos are made by people of heavily criminalized low cultures destroying their environment, which in turn raises more criminals.
Chickenhawk Jennifer Rubin Supports Dark Brandon’s War on America
Until Trump came along, WaPo columnist Jennifer Rubin called herself a conservative and a Republican. She really was just a chickenhawk warmonger; and back then the GOP was backing the wars more than the DemLeftParty.
Wednesday’s Child: Signs and Omens
The other week, under the pretext of our daily stroll through town, Vasily and I betook ourselves to a terrace bar where I could have a glass of Ricard’s “Pastis de Marseille” accompanied by a cigar and he could have his bare feet tickled by the barmaid.
It’s Biden Who’s the Fascist, Not Trump and MAGA
In his recent addresses, President Biden has attacked his Republican opposition as “semi-fascist,” meaning just fascist. But who’s the real fascist? Here’s the definition of Mussolini, the first fascist dictator: “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
Podcast: The Reign of Love, Introduction
Men and women have been trying to reason their way into a good life for centuries. Accepting every ideology proposed by the latest crack-brained intellectual, they fall farther and farther away from the moral and political realities required by human nature.
Autodidact: Sophocles’ Antigone
This post is a composite of a series of pieces I did on Sophocles. Religious and skeptical of sophistry, Sophocles was both a profound writer and an Athenian citizen who served his city in war and peace. His works are a warning against intellectual and political arrogance.
NYTimes Barks: Purge Trump
It’s long been known the New York Times operates as Pravda did in Soviet Days: as a mouthpiece for The Regime. That’s clearly the case with its new editorial demanding President Trump be purged.
At the Movies: Frank Capra–The Really Good Stuff
Frank Capra never made a bad movie (unless some of the lost or unavailable silents are clinkers). His particular brand of sentimental, ordinary-joe appeal and content came to be dubbed Capracorn…
