It’s been said many times by many people. Solzhenitsyn: Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. And then there’s Robert Frost (in the … Continue reading →
It was Lenin (or Stalin, or Marx) who supposedly said: “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Whoever really said it, it’s one of those pithy witticisms that encapsulate some sort of truth, in … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Here’s a slightly-edited version of a post I first published in 2014. I thought it might be good to put it up again, because it still seems appropriate.] The time was 1956, over 65 years ago. The place was … Continue reading →
A large swath of New England is expecting a big snowstorm this weekend, and that includes me. I’ve got a lot of food in the fridge, my place is warm, and I’m hoping for no power outage so that it … Continue reading →
There’s been an ongoing discussion in yesterday’s feminization of education thread concerning when the leftist rot in education actually began. That put me in mind of a post I wrote back in 2017, which I now reproduce here, about some … Continue reading →
It’s come to my attention that Ann Althouse has ended comments on her blog. I’ve noticed a trend in that direction on a lot of sites in the past few years. Those who run the sites have their reasons, although … Continue reading →
Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms are famous mainly because of the Norman Rockwell art that illustrated the concepts. I wrote about that art in this post from fifteen years ago (my, my, how time flies). But today I’m writing about the ideas … Continue reading →
From a coment by “Eris Guy”: The Left/Communist/Democrats have been calling Republicans “Nazis” since Wendell Willkie. (Can you imagine claiming — or worse believing — Willkie is a Nazi.) It’s a slow, steady drip of hate until the water becomes … Continue reading →
Canadian sparrows have changed their tune: A new bird song is spreading like wildfire among Canadian white-throated sparrows, at a scale not seen before by scientists. Birds rarely change their chirpy little tunes, and when they do, it’s typically limited … Continue reading →
Anyone who’s read this blog for a while is well aware of how much I admire both the poetry and the thought of Robert Frost. For example, there’s this [in the excerpt that follows, Frost uses “justice” in the traditional … Continue reading →