More from “Overture to the Suicide of the West” The older advocates of multi-culturalism used to say that they were, like Jesse Jackson, arguing simply for the inclusion of non-Western cultures into the curriculum of an increasingly diversified student population.  Like Bill Clinton, the multi-culturalists believe that the real America only began to come into existence with the liberation of women, blacks, and children.  America may have been founded by straight white European Christian males, but with the emancipation of women, the granting of civil rights to African Americans, and the incorporation of large numbers of Asians and Latin American...

Classical Restraint Despite his violent temper and conversion (for a time) to the old religion, Jonson was a well-balanced mind with a fondness for the order and beauty of classical literature. In his comedies, he made use of the classical theory of humors in order to promote his own ideas of the balanced temperament, and in his later poems, especially those collected in The Forrest and in The Underwood, the wild young swordsman has transformed himself into an advocate of reason and moderation, both in literature and in morals.  Jonson had tried both the abusive satires of the 90’s, a...

This is the first part of my opening shot at the 2017 Summer Symposium. Everyone I know or wish to know is on the wrong side of history.  This is hardly much of a distinction., since,  according to the people who own and operate the United States as a corporate  monopoly, half the country is in the same boat. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says the Confederacy was on the wrong side of history; The members of Black Lives Matter say white people are on the wrong side of history; Barak Obama has declared just about anyone who disagrees with...