September 15th, the day of liberty for Independent Padania, dawns fair and warm. I hurry into the center of Olginate–a small village, now suburbanized like so much of Lombardia–where I board a bus with the the local leghisti.
Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a big book, six bulky volumes in all, but only two things about it have stayed with me after so many years. One is that I have not known a better English stylist, before or since, and so when I think of what Rome must have been in its glory, I think of Gibbon’s galleried prose. The other is the story he tells of Attila, king of the Huns, who boasted of never having had bread pass his lips.
The first volume of Properties of Blood has been ready to go for some time, but I have failed to find a designer for the covers. It should be an easy task, since I want something even simpler than the cover of The Morality of Everyday Life, but I am completely at sea. I used to have people working for me who could deal with these things or a contract with a regular publisher. I am out of my element and would appreciate any recommendations or assistance,
The Cold War ended 30 years ago with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. That means it’s time to return to the non-interventionist foreign policy of our greatest president, George Washington.
Dr. Fleming and Rex talk the whys and wherefores of the war in Ukraine and the American media campaign of disinformation .
Jonathan Swift famously denied that man was a rational animal and insisted that he was only capax rationis, capable of exercising reason but rarely taking the trouble to do so. What else an explain the repeated outbreaks of folly and delusion that have marked our history?
Surveys of Western Civ usually convey the impression that Greek literature was dominated by Athenians and their Ionian Greek cousins.
Twice every year like clockwork, Americans turn briefly away from the iWatches and video screens to which they have committed their souls in order to take up that most pressing question of postmodern times: Is Daylight Savings Time a good thing?
The task before me is daunting. More difficult yet than attempting to persuade the gentle reader that a Pax Ukrainiana is upon us, with merry paysans et paysannes frolicking in the evergreen groves of liberty beneath boughs laden with golden fruit.
