Segmented sleep
I’ve long been a natural night owl. Even as a child with an eight o’clock bedtime it just didn’t feel right to me, and as early as grade school I customarily went to bed as late as my parents would … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Historical figures
Breaking news: Jonathan Chait still hates Bush, and thinks he’s a dummy-head
Boy, is this article not news. Jonathan Chait seems to be miffed at the recent surge of positive re-evaluation of the George Bush presidency, and of George Bush as a man. And why not? Chait went on record back in … Continue reading →
Wonder why you’ve been reading so much about George W. Bush lately?
It’s because the Bush Library is about to open. The dedication ceremony is today: The bullhorn Bush used to address rescue workers in New York in September 2001, a twisted steel beam from the World Trade Center and the pistol … Continue reading →
George W. Bush…
…is now about as popular as Obama Or perhaps I should say that Obama is about as popular as Bush. Just with different people, I’d wager.
Continue reading →More Bush art
Oh, and while we’re on the subject of George Bush (which we were)—here’s another article about Bush in his new avocation: painter. Last February I wrote my evaluation of Bush as a painter. Now that I’ve looked at reproductions of … Continue reading →
Differences: Thatcher vs. Reagan, British vs. American conservatives
Interesting.
Continue reading →Lenin, Dostoevsky, and me
[NOTE: The other day I happened across an old post from March of 2009. As I read it, I realized that I was probably describing one of the earliest manifestations of my change experience, even though I wouldn’t have called … Continue reading →
Thatcher and “saving” the West
Bill Kristol has a piece in the Weekly Standard in which he writes: And now the last of them is gone. Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Pope John Paul II””three who won the Cold War and, it isn’t too much … Continue reading →
RIP Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher has died at 87 after a period of failing health. There are really not enough superlatives to describe her leadership, clarity, and strength of character. It’s very difficult to think of a person of her stature alive today. … Continue reading →
Why government won’t leave us alone
For all you libertarians out there (and I pretty much include myself in that group, although I’m not of the most extreme Ron Paulish type)—this is why you’ve got a very difficult task in bucking the government-intervention tide: Let’s take … Continue reading →
Coolidge: man of the hour
First Shlaes. Now Charles C. Johnson (no, not that one; this one).
Continue reading →Harvard Commencement Day speakers: upward and onward
Here are some samples from the list of Harvard Commencement Day speakers over approximately the last century and a half. I’ve left out ones you’re unlikely to have heard of, which mostly occur in the early years anyway, and selected … Continue reading →