Monthly Archives: December 2025

Going Vertical

December 31, 2025 – 5:44 pm

Some of you might know (especially if you read Maverick Philosopher) about how physicists use the word “jerk” (when they’re at work). It refers to the rate at which acceleration changes. It would be a good term to get familiar with — because, to quote Pink Floyd, “there’s a lot of it about”. We’ve all […]

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Oakeshott Redux

December 28, 2025 – 6:07 pm

SIxteen years ago, Bill Vallicella offered a post on the English philosopher Michael Oakeshott’s classic essay On Being Conservative, and I commented briefly on his post in two items of my own, here and here. (The link in my old posts was to Bill’s old Typepad site, which is no more, and the links to […]

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No Place Like Home

December 27, 2025 – 7:09 pm

We’re back home in quiet, snowy Wellfleet after a busy ten days or so in NYC. Our son’s Nick’s wedding went off splendidly well, and it was a joy to see so many friends and family gather from all over the world (including our daughter and her family, who came in from Hong Kong) to […]

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Dead Continent Walking

December 17, 2025 – 4:37 pm

The latest issue of Chronicles offers an excellent analysis, by Srdja Trifkovic, of the sorry state of Europe, and of the calculus behinds its bellicose response to the war in Ukraine. In particular, Mr. Trifkovic explains that Western Europe, whose dilapidated political class has dug itself into a deep economic hole, is using “ludicrous” claims […]

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Service Notice

December 13, 2025 – 7:21 pm

Sorry — again — that it’s been so quiet here; I’ve been busy with personal and family matters. We’re off to NYC for a week or so; the family is converging from all over the world for our son Nick’s wedding, which is happening in Brooklyn on the 20th. After we get back from that […]

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The Plan

December 6, 2025 – 6:46 pm

The Trump administration has just released (on December 4th) an overview of its national-security strategy. It marks a welcome return to a realistic and pragmatic approach that hews more closely to that of Washington, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams (as outlined so brilliantly in the late Angelo Codevilla’s outstanding book America’s Rise and Fall Among […]

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Cards On The Table

December 2, 2025 – 10:13 pm

Here’s Wajahat Ali, an influential man of the Left (who, among other things, writes for the New York Times), informing white Americans that they should abandon any hope they may have had of preserving their worthless culture and homeland: Well, there you have it! I have to admit that the honesty, at least, is refreshing; […]

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