I doubt anyone here knows of Jean-Jacques Dessaline. He was the first president of Haiti after the former slave-island had defeated the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, who had invaded the island with an army of 40,000 battle-hardened French…
Category: Race and Culture
A Memo to President Trump: Beware of the Green Card Bias
This is a hard subject to talk about. President Trump and I belong to a generation when the natural law of “becoming American” was still operational, even for Indians who immigrated here in the 1960s. I know several. Donald Trump’s…
Themes- “Consistency” (1947) by Kenneth Roberts (my Favorite Tory)
Note the publish date, 1947, and historically, about the Adams Administration era, 1797-1801, then compare with the same underlying problems we confront in American politics today. I’ll be doing a series on Themes in the American Apologetics series in upcoming weeks.…
“Not-a-Sheila’s”, How to Think About Them
We used to call them “female impersonators”. I think that’s still politically correct today although you almost never hear it anymore. Everyone wants to sound either indignantly hip, or clinical, as if they were wearing white lab coats when speaking of…
Maoism in America?
For years we’ve been steered toward the old Soviet Union as the model of Marxism to either admire or hate in America. In the process very little notice has been given to Maoism and the rise of the cult of personality that surrounded the most violent and…