Tag: democracy
Is America Ungovernable?
Otto von Bismark, the 19th century Iron Chancellor and architect of modern Germany, once remarked that “If you like law and sausages, you shouldn't...
… Neither Proud Nor Lonely
C.S. Lewis noted that “If you had asked Lazamon or Chaucer ‘Why do you not make up a brand-new story of your own?’ I...
Progressive Liberalism Or: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love...
American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time by John McGowan. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
Moorpark, CA. If the current administration is...
Happy Uniform Holiday Number 3!
“When a nation’s Holy-days are treated with indifference and neglect, it should be considered a sign of national degeneracy and decay.”
--Walt Whitman
Burned-Over District,...
Waiting for the Americans…
In the late 1970s, my grandfather’s older brother, already in his nineties, was pressing his almost deaf ears to a little portable radio still...
Table Games and the Politics of Corruption
Jefferson County, WV. In December my county will hold a referendum to decide whether or not table games will be permitted at the...
Who Was Richard Blaine? Myth, History, and the Great American...
Moorpark, CA. The first time is not always the best, but it is often the most revealing. The first time I saw Casablanca I...
The Other Side of China, and What It Might Say When...
As the heat of late summer subsides here in Nanjing and our university settles into the new semester, many look forward to the annual...
Mobbed Up: When Turning the Other Cheek Only Gains Another Slap
Washington, Ct. In his wonderful 1974 book entitled The Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk remarks upon the British and how they are able...
Tocqueville on the Shores of Titicaca
Amid Alexis de Tocqueville’s writings on revolution in France, there is a passage that rings true for those of us who have spent time...