Ask The Autodidact:
The civil right to choose the sort of education your children receive remains of paramount importance….
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The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
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.
The Myth of American Conservatism
Rather few people have any idea about what conservatism is or was and how it evolved. I don’t blame anyone for not caring, because it is not worth the effort.
David Brooks Explains Conservatism
One of the things the Left likes to do is put up fake conservatives to tell real conservatives what to think and. This also serves the purpose of telling the Left what supposedly really is going on among conservatives.
