Wednesday’s Child: Traditional Values
A delegation from the Moscow Patriarchate arrived in Washington yesterday to work over those in the administration who do not yet believe that the Kremlin is an embattled bulwark of enlightened conservatism.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Studying War: Bellicose Hypocrisies
The conventional position taken in academic discourse is that war can only be excused in extreme cases usually defined by one party’s assertion of higher motive. If repetition of a lie confers truth, then the justification for modern wars is unassailable.
Preface to “Studying War”, Part II (Conclusion)
Bits of this rewritten and expanded section were posted earlier.
Wednesday’s Child: From my Bedside
I seem to remember that our sainted webmaster dislikes Diogenes stories, if only because they are largely apocryphal, but I’m ill in bed with the ‘flu.
Poem: Last Call
This song, which inspired Lawrence Block’s novel “When the Sacred Ginmill Closes,” is not for young people or the faint of heart, but it is carefully composed. Block and Van Ronk were good friends, and both were alcoholics.
Studying War: Preface
These paragraphs, now at the beginning of the chapter, were inspired by a drive to the Hosios Loukas Monastery in Central Greece
Wednesday’s Child: Guy Fawkes Day
And now, more grist to the mill. Another feather in my cap, or perhaps nail in my coffin.
Wednesday’s Child: The Conspiracy Perspective
Conspiracy theories are a great leveler. If in reality, as I see it, relationships between persons and things bring to mind medieval iconography or Egyptian painting…
