I’ll get to Donald Trump eventually, since there’s an election on. But the question is, first, Do nations need Heroes? Thomas Carlyle, the 19th Century English philosopher answered that question with a resounding “Absolutely.” In 1842 he did a series…
In the 1840s, in one of his lectures on “Heroes”, Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish philosopher, used the term “skeptical dilettantism” to describe how that army of ne’er-do-well, half-baked intellectuals will collectively move to destroy anyone of genius who enters their…
Or Raising Manhattan. Try Nob Hill. Pick a city, any city. In fact, pick a county seat. They all started with the wealthiest homes, then working their way down to the tracks, then to the other side of the tracks.…
The film is of a poignant burial at sea of a Navy gunner named Loyce Deen in the aircraft he was defending in 1944 in the Pacific. Takes just a minute and a half. Burial at Sea of Loyce…
Rioters in downtown Portland armed with sticks and batons block random cars from leaving a parking garage. #PortlandRiots #antifa Video by @TheHannahRay. pic.twitter.com/S2ZRYDqL99 — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 13, 2020 Look over this little 1 minute film from Andy Ngo…