Recalling Santayana’s Genteel Tradition
George Santayana’s interest in philosophy was for the reality it revealed—and for the relief that it promised.
The Passion of Scott Adams
Once whetted, the appetite of the woke beast is insatiable. But one senses it is nearly sated in its hate feast
against Scott Adams.
against Scott Adams.
Biden’s Ukraine Serenade
This President’s Day, our president was overseas promising money to the Ukrainian president, while Donald Trump offered aid and comfort to American victims in East Palestine.
A Modest Proposal for Transforming the Universities
The entire apparatus can be restaffed and employed to help dismantle all the bogus, intellectually vacuous programs, departments, and initiatives whose sole purpose is to foster permanent grievance.
The Forgotten Truth of War
Marinated in peace and affluence, we in the West have neglected the truth that human beings are geared for war.
Peace Through Strength or
Chaos Through Senility?
The Chinese would not have been deploying spy balloons over U.S. nuclear installations if Donald Trump was still president.
Justice for John Eastman
The fundamental message implicit in the California Bar’s vendetta against Trump’s former lawyer is this: “We’re the government. We’ve defined what is truth.
How dare you question us.”
How dare you question us.”
Too Much to Hope?
Is it too much to hope that fit retribution is even now being organized for these bitchy, beige, and bland totalitarians of the deep state?
Little Joe’s Corvette
Joe Biden’s usefulness may be coming to an end. Could he possibly run for reelection in 2024, let alone win it?
The New McCarthyism
Expect the changes to the people’s business-as-usual to be mostly cosmetic under Kevin McCarthy’s reign as speaker of the House.
Lies for Me But Not for Thee
For whatever reason, lies attract more obloquy when they are perpetrated by Republicans than when they are perpetrated by Democrats.
Stanford’s Naughty and Nice List
Like recent formulations of cannabis, Stanford’s latest folly is more concentrated, more toxic, than the academic street drugs of yesteryear.
Trump,
For a Limited Time Only
It’s hard to know what to make of Trump’s entry into the world of NFTs. But his commitment to free speech and limiting the activities of deep state censorship should be applauded.
Where’s the Outrage?
In any sane world, these revelations would have the public up in arms, literally.
Art Museums and Impermanence
Many art museums may still look like the marmoreal palaces of yore, but increasingly their goals are in tension with the calm solidity of their galleries and pavilions.
Highways to Utopia
Humanity is at the crossroads of an awesome moral divide.
Third Time’s a Charm For Merrick Garland
Would Merrick Garland have wheeled out the old special counsel wheeze absent Trump’s announcement that he was running for president again?
NeverTrump Fraternity Parties On
The results of the midterms and Donald Trump’s rhetorical incontinence have emboldened the anti-Trump faction.
Free Bird
Everything about Elon Musk insults the coddled, low-testosterone consensus that has been ruining America this last decade through the promulgation of its dependency agenda.
Not Consensus, But Truth
Thoughts on some senses of the word “steal”
(with a brief excursus on “consensus”).
(with a brief excursus on “consensus”).