Wednesday’s Child: Something to Celebrate
Generally, as my father always said, a birthday is an occasion for rending one’s garments and scattering ashes over one’s head…
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Italian September 25 More Words AND VERBS
This week, I shall start out slow and try to post additions every day. Please tell me where you are in the Delitto
Xi visits Trump and brings Sun Tzu – as China overtakes the U.S. to rule the world
President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington, D.C. this week for his first state visit since 2015 with President Barack Obama. This time Xi comes as a conqueror. China is No. 1, the U.S. has become No. 2
Wednesday’s Child: Taken at the Flood
I am reminded of a passage in A. J. P. Taylor’s English History.
Scamming Language Programs
Every day, I get a text or email or run across a “reel” on Facebook that says something like, “Quit saying ‘Sto bene,’ (or any one of dozens of everyday phrases, and then offers what real Italians say.”
WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT SUPPORT “ISRAEL”
I, too, grew up believing that we must “support Israel” because God said so. I believed it because I was told that by influential people in my life. But it’s not in the Bible.
The Greek Conservative Mind
For over ten years I am have been working, intermittently, on a course of lectures and/or written chapters on aspects of Ancient Greek morality, social and political institutions, civilization, literature, and philosophy, that would present the ancient Greeks from a rather different perspective than either the current Marxist-feminist attack on ancient racist patriarchs or the old Liberal defense of the founders of democracy, secular reason, and progress.
Augustine’s Confessions, Book III EXPANDED 09/15! Natural Law
Augustine sees the most earthly desires as a feeble and dissolute shadow of the only reality, the Creator and His love for man who resists the love
Wednesday’s Child: An Ancestor Come to Light
I reason, however, that I’m but a step away from my seventieth year in this vale of tears and an old bore can always produce the plain and honest excuse that he is old.
How Harm Harmed Us
John Stuart Mill stands at the forefront of thinkers who were to supply the English elite with doctrines which could replace what had come to be regarded as dying forms.
John Stuart Mill stands at the forefront of thinkers who were to supply the English elite with doctrines which could replace what had come to be regarded as dying forms.
