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.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
2022 Will Be an Interesting Year for Liberty
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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.
Another Year of Reading
A number of friends, real and virtual, on Facebook have listed the books they most enjoyed or profited from reading this past year. I was surprised how many were books about books, that is, tertiary rehashings of movements or developments for which there are superior first-hand sources.
Wednesday’s Child: The War that Wasn’t
Some months back a wise friend of mine observed that the frequency with which I sound off on Russia – notwithstanding that I am tied to this troublesome part of the world by “propinquity and property of blood” – is likely to fatigue the gentle reader.
Will there be a Christian World in the Future?
We see hurried people that come and go, avoiding giving the slightest importance to what is happening around them.
Merriest Christmas: 1991 and the End of the Soviet Union
Just like that, it was over. On Christmas Day 1991 at 7:32 pm Moscow time, the hammer-and-sickle red flag of the Soviet Union was lowered for the last time over the Kremlin.
Wednesday’s Child: My Christmas Pudding
My firstborn Nikolai is in Palermo this week to meet his new brother and, perspicaciously, has brought with him a liter of excellent French brandy to mark the occasion. “Your Christmas pudding, Father,” he said, handing over the ornate gold-topped bottle.
