Wednesday’s Child: Honey and Light
In a world growing evermore progressive – I suspect the Gadarene swine thought this tendency marvelous as they went off the cliff – one has to work hard to stay in place.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
A People Beyond Suffering: Afghanistan by Russell Gordon
Russell Gordon is a photographer and journalist. This article was originally published in the Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs in 1994.
Foreign Affairs, Summer 2021
Dr. Trifkovic gives our listeners a survey of the state of affairs from West to East: Brexit, the coming French Presidential elections, Germany post-Merkel, Putin for the foreseeable future, Erdogan’s path in Turkey, Bibi’s last act?
Bulldog and the Meaning of Life
When I selected the first Bulldog Drummond for our ongoing discussion of books, it was partly because it is the kind of old-fashioned adventure that people like to read in the summer, and partly the author’s understand of certain fundamental things of life might remind readers of the “world we have lost.”
Divide et Impera, Conclusion
Afghanistan is not a natiom, much less a nation- state. It is patchwork of hostile ethnicities and regions engaged in endless conflict, alternately lapsing into a cold, or blowing up into a hot, war
Wednesday’s Child: A Perfect Day Out
Summertime and the living’s not just not easy, but when, even in the shade, it gets hot enough to fry an egg sunny side up it’s pretty much impossible. July, as the gentle reader may have read, was globally the hottest month since records began, and it now looks like August will be even hotter. You just can’t beat this kind of heat with mint juleps.
“Other People, Parts I and II
I posted the first part of this new essay in haste, because I felt a weakness coming on, but I have now revised and expand the first part and added a second.
Divide et Impera, Part I: A Little Background to the Current Debacle
This is a slightly corrected Perspective on Afghanistan published in 2010:
“to me the most wonderful thing of all is that so wise and wealthy a nation could have ever entertained the project of occupying such a country as Kabul, where there is nothing but rocks and stones.
Let’s All Blame Biden and Feel Good About Ourselves
Biden’s performance as commander-in-chief is disastrous, but let us never forget that George Bush and his team of aspiring world-controlers had no valid reason for invading and destroying this rotten country–as I said before the invasion–and the only exit strategy that seemed likely is what is happening now
50 Years Off the Gold Standard
August 15 marks 50 years since Nixon took us off gold. Since then, gold has gone from $35 an ounce to $1,782. A better way to put it is: The dollar’s value was eroded from $35 an ounce of gold to $1,782 – a reduction of 1/50th of the original value.
