Why go on? This is what passes for news in the new millennium, and not just on NPR or in other leading organs run by lackeys of the regime. Many have said this before, but Evelyn Waugh, much less Terry Southern, could not make this stuff up.
When the topic of consequential presidential elections in American history is discussed, the elections most commonly mentioned include those of 1860, 1912, and 1932. But there is one election which is often forgotten and yet has had an enormous impact on the United States: the election of 1960. The election pitted Republican Vice President Richard Nixon against Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy.
Most histories of the early Church emphasize its antagonistic relationship with the Roman Empire. There is some truth in this approach, though the truth, when overstated, tends to overshadow another dimension of the troubled relationship.
How the anti-immigrant Lega Nord is once again taking the lead in opposing the Third World invasion of Europe.
The sun is set; the swallows are asleep;
The bats are flitting fast in the gray air;
The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep,
And evening’s breath, wandering here and there
Over the quivering surface of the stream,
Wakes not one ripple from its summer dream.
I’ve scarcely mentioned the Salisbury poisonings here, though the story is interesting not only from the geopolitical, but also from the social and cultural point of view. Let me fill in some of the blanks.
According to a later Christian tradition, when Tiberius heard of this strange Jewish renegade who alone did not want to kick the Romans out of Judaea, he proposed to the senate that Christ be included in the pantheon of Roman gods. The Senate, so the story goes, objected, declaring the new religion to be illicit, though Judaism was protected by law.
When the armies of the Prophet stormed forth from historic obscurity in Arabia and burst upon the enfeebled imperial boundaries, they knew nothing of the ecclesiastical rivalry between the thrones of Elder and New Rome.
How the rhetoric and reasoning of the “right to life” movement subverts the defense of innocent life.
