Trail Markers to the Transcendence of Liberty; Donald Trump and the Election of 2024
The Transcendence of Liberty
I’ve told this story often, when I attended a birthday party for a law professor at a university in Ukraine, while still a part of the USSR.. Around three tables pushed...
L’etat C’est Moi, the Second Attempt of the Rise of a Genuine Royal Class...
First Bill Clinton, then Obama and then another Clinton. A dynasty of royals, not a regular political dynasty, mind you, but genuinely royals-of-the-mind, is now in launch mode in American politics....all premised on that...
“Papismus Lucifugus”; the Advent of Tribalism is Not Just in Our Politics, but in...
A hat-tip to J D Vance's heritage.
I actually had this book, Papismus Lucifugus, one of only a few surviving. Dated 1668, it’s a record of a disputation between John Menzies of the (Church of...
Of All the People Who Ever Asked People to Vote for Them…..
...Donald Trump was probably the only political player who never wanted, nor needed, additional money.
This is why Donald Trump is a political enigma, and the entire political class is unable to even begin to...
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, by Vassar
Meet Jack Goldfarb, He was God-Father to my first wife.
In 1933 a Hungarian Jew got off the boat at Ellis Island, looking for a place to start a knitwear cut- and-sew operation. His name...