Monthly Archives: July 2019

Service Notice

Sorry about the near-total lack of content here. We’ve had a steady stream of houseguests, and I’ve hardly been online at all. I’ve paid as little attention to the news as possible, and have spent my scanty solitary time reading (Bruce Catton, Thomas West, and Forrest McDonald), working on a couple of mixes in the […]

Molon Labe, Mate

In response to a recent shooting spree, New Zealand decided it would disarm its citizens. The citizens, however, like their fellow Antipodeans in Australia following a similar attempt at confiscation some years ago, have generally refused to comply. Good for them. Good for them. All that such policies accomplish is to make criminals of decent […]

Striking At The Heart

I’ve paid little attention to the news over the past few days, but two related stories have percolated through. The first is the decision by the city of Charlottesville, VA, to put an end to its annual celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. Older readers, who received their education prior to the Ministry of Truth having […]

Men Wanted

This morning’s assortment of email alerts included a fine short essay by Anthony Esolen, writing at American Greatness on the subject of “toxic masculinity”. You should read the whole thing, but here’s a longish excerpt: We’ve all been hearing plenty about “toxic masculinity’ these days, and never from people who trouble to tell us what […]

The Song Remains The Same

From Richard Fernandez: what happened in Portland this weekend — an unholy merger of self-imagined virtue with willingness to inflict terror — is nothing new. (Just ask Robespierre.)

Service Notice

Things might be a little slow around here for a bit; we have our children and grandchildren visiting, and the strife-torn world seems far away. Which is nice.