Realism on Russia and Afghanistan
One of the themes of my writing for Fleming Foundation is: We have to get along with the Russians. They have 6,000 nuclear bombs. We have 6,000 nuclear bombs. Be careful.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
The Silents: Reviews: Ivan Mozzhukhin (1889–1939)
Perhaps the greatest film actor I’d never heard of until I discovered him a very few years ago.
Debunking American History, Part II: Who We Were
The older textbook view of our history (whose most idiotic version goes by the name “American Exceptionalism”) is that the American colonists were a rare breed of individualists, cut loose from the traditions of old Europe, who came to New World seeking religious liberty.
Take Five: Deconstructing the News
Impromptu responses to the Ukraine crisis, Israel and Iran, the first transgender cabinet secretary, the most recent shooting in Minnesota
Wednesday’s Child: Lear’s Lament
“O, reason not the need,” the king tells his daughter, who has just added a cancelled security detail to the lengthening list of her father’s humiliations at the hands of his perfidious progeny. Her sister has just asked him, rhetorically, why he ever needed to have those rowdy men in the house.
Good News in a Dark Time from Anthony Bukoski
I just received word from Anthony Bukoski that his latest book. The Blondes of Wisconsin, has just been published.
The South–And the Kennedy Brothers–Is Still Right, Conclusion
These were the beginnings of a blooming Southern “radical.” There was a mixture of emotions boiling inside me when reading The South Was Right. This was sort of like a boy learning that his dead father was not the monster portrayed by some disgruntled family member all his life. There was joy at learning that my ancestors were not the pigs I had been told they were. The very title of the Kennedys work emphasized not only that our Southern ancestors were not wrong, and not that they thought they were right — they were right. The South Was Right
Sloth, Spandex, and Goose Cassoulet, Part Two
Moving from the deer stand over to the nearby goose pond required a few steps. I had initially put a rifled choke on my 12-gauge shotgun and zeroed it at the nearby range along with the Nagant using slugs in anticipation of using it for deer. It was of course not nearly as accurate beyond 50 yards as the Nagant, so I did not use it the last week of deer season in favor of the rifle. I came to realize the more economical choice of a rifled choke over against the cost of a fully rifled shotgun barrel would...
Biden’s Gun Grab
After Xerox copiers were invented in 1959, a few trickled into the Soviet Union. The regime immediately mandated each had to be registered with the KGB, including a copy of each copier’s unique “fingerprint.” That way those using the machines for samizdat – self-publishing – of dissident materials could be identified and sent to the gulag. The Biden regime is seeking to impose something similar with his Executive Ukase on gun control.
Sloth, Spandex, and Goose Cassoulet-A Neophyte’s Hunting Adventure, Part One
I have a chronic reluctance to get up before dawn to perch myself in a tree-stand at first light in the middle of deer season, but, as I faced the final week of hunting, my sloth yielded to an insatiable venison-jones which drove me, regardless of moon phase or feeding schedule, temperature or precipitation, to go out early every morning of that final week, shivering in wind and rain, before work hoping for the arrival of a doe into my kill zone.
