From T. S. Eliot’s poem The Hollow Men: In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river… This is the way the world ends This is the way the … Continue reading →
I know there’s other news today, too, besides the Flynn case. But it’s the Flynn case that’s on my mind. It seems to me it illustrates the fact that, step by slow step over the last couple of decades (maybe … Continue reading →
And ’twas ever thus. One of the many lessons of the COVID-19 response is how easily public officials embrace tyranny, and how many people accept it because of fear. I’m afraid of COVID-19. I’m in a relatively high-risk group, and … Continue reading →
I grew up in an era when China was not only considered an enemy, but an unknown country that was rarely visited and from which little information came that filtered down to the American people: US policy toward China during … Continue reading →
Gretchen Whitmer is the governor of Michigan. Till COVID struck, I’d never heard of her, but then I don’t live in Michigan or near it. COVID has given her a fame of sorts, because she has clamped down on the … Continue reading →
Alex Berenson has been active lately on some of the Fox opinion shows, and every now and then I’ve watched his appearances. He’s an interesting guy; I wrote about him previously in this post about marijuana and its effects. Berenson … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a repeat (slightly edited) of a previous post. It seems timely, as I think you’ll see as you read it. Maybe it’s always timely.] I’ve quoted the following excerpt before, because it’s one of my very favorites. … Continue reading →
I’ve read quite a bit about South Korea’s approach to COVID, which involved neither a lockdown nor a shelter-in-place edict. Despite that, South Korea got good results in terms of slowing its deaths down, even though it was stricken quite … Continue reading →
Developing a serological test for COVID-19 is important for many reasons. One is that we can identify people who had the virus and don’t even know it, and are now immune and run no risk and can go back out … Continue reading →
The left must see COVID-19 as a fabulous and fortuitous opportunity to accomplish a host of things they’ve been wishing for and hoping for. They believe it will destroy Trump, hurt the economy, and convince people that big government and … Continue reading →
It takes strength to hang tough through an experience like this: Longtime Republican politico K.T. McFarland said in a radio interview Wednesday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team pressured her for “20, 30, 40 hours of hell” to either cop … Continue reading →
The National Association of Scholars is, in its own words: …a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to reform higher education. We uphold the standards of a liberal arts education that fosters intellectual freedom, searches for the truth, and promotes virtuous … Continue reading →