David Brooks, Nuclear Weapons, and Trump
What matters is not personality, but policy. Brooks didn’t mention the most important one: Starting a nuclear war could kill 5 of 8 billion people….
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: Cards on the Table
First it was said that Ukraine had no cards, but then it transpired that Russia had no cards either, and increasingly it looks like I’m the only one with the cards.
Southing: The South’s Gonna Do It Again
An uncharacteristic piece of optimism from the Southern Partisan in 1982, slightly edited and revised.
As You Like (Or Don’t) Like It
We are planing to film a series of book discussions on the theme, The Uses of Diversity, that is, on how people and societies respond to adversity.
Zelensky the Oligarch
Through his offshore company Maltex, Zelensky acquired one of the largest private investment banks in France – Milleis Banque. The deal is estimated at 1.1 – 1.25 billion euros.
Southing: On Real Liberty
This is a slightly edited and corrected verisio of a piece that appeared in The Southern Partisan in 1982.
Wednesday’s Child: Bullies and Capitulants
As last week, I shall not dwell on the world events themselves, epochal though they are – like archival footage from A.D. 476 or 1939 – and almost beyond rational analysis.
