In the very years when Pius IX was defending his little kingdom, another war was waging on the other side of the world. There, too, an old-fashioned people in the Southern states were fighting to preserve their independence and their agrarian way of life against an aggressive industrialized power in the north.
The grassy knoll has firmly established itself in the narrative in the form of a Dairy Queen in Orem, Utah, but there are a myriad other suchlike tropes.
A slightly revised version of a talk given in 2007 to the Association of Professional Educators of Louisiana, a sane teachers’ union founded by Roger Busbice, who used to invite his friends, Clyde Wilson, Don Livingston, Charles Eliott and myself to give talks on historical topics.
In a few days, we shall be publishing a splendid essay on Putin and the Ukraine War, written by the celebrated novelist and historian Piers Paul Read. As delighted as we are with the the opportunity, it is a cause for sad reflection that a writer of such merit–and reputation–should be publishing an original essay on a website with limited circulation. We shall be making it free to the public in hopes that it will receive the attention it deserves
Vasily, who turns four next month and whose verbal incursions are now all but irrepressible, doesn’t want me to “work.”
Middle and Passive Voice, Deponent Verbs, and Genitive of Agent
I am quite fond of political assassinations, though not in totalitarian countries, of course. I like to witness them in countries that actually have some kind of body politic…
