The Daily Poke in the Eye: Notes on the Righteous “Screw You”
In the 1840s, in one of his lectures on "Heroes", Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish philosopher, used the term "skeptical dilettantism" to describe how that...
“The Fountainhead” courtroom Speech, Ayn Rand
Again, I'm not Ayn Rand's biggest fan, but this speech by architect Howard Roark, on trial for having blown up a housing project he...
G K Chesterton on “Democracy in America” as seen by Jefferson and Lincoln and...
From "The Eternal Left's War on American Excepitonalism" (2018) and Alexis De Toqueville, in 1831,
When De Toqueville came to America and wrote his famous...
Survival, Courage and Common Sense in Our New Cocooned Worlds
It's proof that practicing psychologists with PhD's at the end of their names are only in it for the money if they don't spend...
The American Political Class, God help me….
God help me...
...but every time I see a GOP member of the political class, with a few exceptions (Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Jim Jordan...just...