Monthly Archives: March 2025

The Days Are Long, But The Years Are Short

March 30, 2025 – 8:39 pm

Happy birthday to the great Eric Clapton, who turned 80 today. I still recall when he burst on the scene, so long ago. It seems like an entirely different age of the Universe. What a player! Thank you, sir, for all that wonderful music.

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They Fail To Comprehend Their Peril

March 29, 2025 – 10:15 pm

I’ve written here often about civil war; I even went so far as to publish an article about it at American Greatness a few years ago. We flatter ourselves, here in the West, that in our “progress” toward Utopia we’ve moved past such atavisms of barbarity, but the truth is that human nature never changes, […]

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Stop This World!

March 20, 2025 – 5:32 pm

Last December the Shoal Survivors (the musical collective I’ve been a part of for many years now) got together for a day to record a few tunes, and I’m finally getting around to doing the mixes. This one’s an old favorite by the late, great Mose Allison. The personnel: our music director Carl Sturken, guitar; […]

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Vallicella on Bogardus

March 19, 2025 – 4:47 pm

A few days ago I posted an item about Tomas Bogardus’s philosophical paper attacking naturalism as an unacceptable foundation for scientific explanation. Seeking a professional critique, I wrote my friend Bill Vallicella, the Maverick Philosopher, to ask what he thought of the argument, and he has now weighed in, over at his place. Discussion ensues […]

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“We Wash Our Trash To Repent For Killing God”

March 15, 2025 – 2:27 pm

Nature abhors a vacuum, and human nature is no exception. Here.

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How They Love To Hate!

March 11, 2025 – 4:48 pm

Today in town I saw a Tesla drive by with one of these on the back: I suppose there’s always a tendency for people to resent their betters, but here’s a man who: a) builds the world’s best electric cars; b) is leading the way at the frontiers of manned space exploration; c) is developing […]

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A Whole New World

March 5, 2025 – 12:42 pm

After watching President Trump’s lively and combative speech last night, I continue to be amazed (and delighted) at the sudden and complete reversal of the power balance in American politics; it is the greatest example I have seen in my lifetime of what the political theorist Vilfredo Pareto called the “circulation of elites“. On second […]

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