The Francis Effect?
by The EditorsThe First Things Podcast, Episode 7. Also featuring: The Hamilton Debate and the Marquis de Lafayette’s “Guns and Ships.” Continue Reading »
The First Things Podcast, Episode 7. Also featuring: The Hamilton Debate and the Marquis de Lafayette’s “Guns and Ships.” Continue Reading »
Hamilton tells of America’s pursuit of greatness and reminds us how much we need goodness. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical locates politics downstream of marriage and family. Continue Reading »
Hillary Clinton
It must be nice, it must be nice
To have Washington on your side
Bernie Sanders
Scratch that
This is not a moment it’s the movement
. . . . Continue Reading »
Quinn Hillyer at National Review is calling the anticipated change in the U.S. $10 note “outrageous and ignorant.” The change entails removal of Alexander Hamilton’s portrait for that of an as yet unnamed woman. It’s not the woman that arouses Hillyer’s unhappiness, but the removal of his . . . . Continue Reading »
Well I couldn’t resist (ineptly) posting that photo of the reef-rock that China and the Philippines both claim, but doing so perhaps made the topic seem more humorous than it really is. Bottom line 1: you gotta watch China on every geo-strategic front, and the “spontaneous” . . . . Continue Reading »
My Rock Songbook has slowed down of late, and theres a reason. At Washington and Lee University, where I currently teach, we do this cool thing of having a month-long intensive class. The prof is supposed to pack this with a semesters worth of material, and my class is an American . . . . Continue Reading »
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