There’s something irresistible about plant names. I don’t mean formal botanical nomenclature, though that can tell its own fascinating stories, but the folk terms, the little nicknames, that get given to plants because someone happened to look down and notice a confection of foliage . . . . Continue Reading »
Mr. Poulos, in reference to my recently posted “Draft Manifesto 2.0,” set me to reconsidering the last pages of Leo Strauss’s Thoughts on Machiavelli. Whether he suspected how many hours this invitation would cost me, I do not know, but, now that the ordeal is (temporarily) over, I . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Asia Times “Spengler” Forum, a reader posts this gem from today’s Daily Telegraph: The EU’s working age population will peak next year before tipping into decline for half a centuryThis will cause a relentless rise in pension and health costs that risk . . . . Continue Reading »
In keeping with our discussion today of the power of technology—and adding in Yuval Levin’s insight that society has replaced “promoting virtue” with “preventing suffering” as its overriding purpose—you end up with this story: A man is accused of using the . . . . Continue Reading »
This video vividly explains how computer technology’s geometric growth is profoundly changing the world—with results that may be beyond or ability to control. Secondhand Smoke notwithstanding to the contrary, by opening this particular Pandora’s box, we may have finally found the . . . . Continue Reading »
When the rulers of on line commentary site To the Source saw my piece ” Homo Sapiens, Get Lost ” in NRO about the growing anti-humanism that is infecting the environmental movement, it gave them an idea. They asked me to write a piece for TTS , using the same Brave New World analogy as . . . . Continue Reading »
So lovers of freedom are all over the president for three reasons. First, his enormous expansion of the reach of the national government will produce the schoolmarmish soft despotism of apathetic dependents feared by Tocqueville. To some extent that’s undeniably the intention of . . . . Continue Reading »
Sometimes the truth really hurts:Piraro’s views are whacky but his daily cartoon is one of the best out there. This one really hit my funny . . . . Continue Reading »
When the rulers of To the Source saw my piece “Homo Sapiens, Get Lost” in NRO about the the growing anti-humanism that is infecting the environmental movement, it gave them an idea. They asked me to write a piece for TTS, using the same Brave New World analogy as a launching pad that I . . . . Continue Reading »
This I did late last night in a very worthwhile chat with Scott and Mark of the League of Ordinary Gentlemen. Have a listen. . . . . Continue Reading »
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