Wednesday’s Child: Canossa Roadkill
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.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Pio Nono Versus The Liberals, Part I
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.
To Our Readers
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
Wednesday’s Child: The Kindness of Strangers
Vasily, who turns four next month and whose verbal incursions are now all but irrepressible, doesn’t want me to “work.”
Greek I.24 WITH AUDIO and WRITE IN GREEK
Middle and Passive Voice, Deponent Verbs, and Genitive of Agent
Wednesday’s Child: A View to a Kill
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…
Charlie Kirk, may he rest in peace
Many people on the right are saying that the murder of Charlie Kirk marks the beginning of a Civil War. They are wrong on two counts.
Studying War
I promised to serialize parts or all of the last chapter of the sequel to The Reign of Love. This chapter deals with the ethics of war. The photograph was taken about two weeks ago in Billings Park, Superior, Wisconsin, a half mile from where I lived as a child.
