Angelo Codevilla asks the vital if perplexing question of how to restore a republic when a sizable portion of its members has no desire to govern itself. In one of his many astute formulations, Codevilla notes that, although the “bipartisan ruling class that controls nearly all our institutions” constitutes a tiny minority of the populace,Continue reading “Homeland Restoration”
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Scientific Moonshine
In 1854, Frederick Douglass addressed the Philozetian Society of Western Reserve College, Ohio on the then-contentious question of whether “negroes” are human beings. As those denying the “claims of the negro” readily admitted, humanity is accompanied by certain inalienable rights and liberties, the denial of which constitutes “the greatest wrong and robbery” on the partContinue reading “Scientific Moonshine”
The Revolution We Need
It does my heart glad to read about this miniature, contested, but powerful restoration of freedom and sanity in the town of Vail, Arizona. When the school board announced that it would continue to impose masking on the hapless children of this community of 10,000 souls, the parents rose up in a rebellion described byContinue reading “The Revolution We Need”
Taking a Beating for the Truth
Locking down Florida last year was a “huge mistake,” for which the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, is to blame. The same goes for most states in the Union, of course. There are differences, however. DeSantis was among the first of the lockdown governors to implement a phased reopening, making him a continual target of desperateContinue reading “Taking a Beating for the Truth”
Getting What We Pay For
The year is 1857. Speaking to the American Abolition Society, Frederick Douglass has to admit that the noose of slavery seems to be tightening its grip on the American regime. Despite many grim setbacks for the cause of freedom, Douglass is far from daunted: “I have come to the conclusion that from no work wouldContinue reading “Getting What We Pay For”
Withstanding Cephas, Standing With Peter
When Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. Galatians 2:11 “The Great Reset” is the brainchild of Klaus Schwab, “a German economist and founder of the [World Economic Forum], an annual gathering of high-level business and political leaders that since 1971 has usually met inContinue reading “Withstanding Cephas, Standing With Peter”
Comparing Apples to Apples
This is one of many graphs one could produce, all telling us the same story. Meanwhile, measures that are clearly doing nothing to protect anyone continue to have catastrophic consequences. And the engineers of this forced civilizational failure continue to respond to critics with insults and censorship rather than reason. Machiavelli’s teaching that the princeContinue reading “Comparing Apples to Apples”
How Not to Resist Modern Despotism
Václav Havel was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic. Initially, his career was in drama of the literary sort, but it took a decisively political turn when he was imprisoned for fostering dissent against the communist despots oppressing his people. His 1978 essay, “The Power of the Powerless,”Continue reading “How Not to Resist Modern Despotism”
How We Learned to Love Leviathan
Tocqueville wants us to have a “salutary fear” of the new forms despotism threatens to take in modern times. Fear is a response to evil. Once we see how tyranny deprives us of essential goods, it becomes evident that it is something to be avoided, even at considerable cost. Free will being an essential partContinue reading “How We Learned to Love Leviathan”
Why Study the Science of Servitude?
When a man “is a participator in the government of affairs”—on a daily, and therefore (for most of us) on a local basis—“he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.” So spoke Jefferson. Tocqueville heartily agreed. As SocratesContinue reading “Why Study the Science of Servitude?”
"His Tongue shall Speak Judgment" 