Highlighting David Poff’s Update on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense “Human Sense”
I interjected this piece because I worked with David Poff as he rewrote Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" to reflect 20th Century American prose, and also pointed out a single shortcoming in Paine's thinking.
It was...
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...
The Law of Generations’ Fatal Hook May be Upon Us
I do think we have a chance to turn this around, and am drawing up plan of attack. I suspect you have a team(s) to do both analysis and on-the- ground options. I'm sure...
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...