Donne’s sermons and the blogging tradition
Today, 31 March, is the feast day for John Donne in the Anglican and Lutheran denominations…
America’s Coming Century of Humiliation… begins
A tragic sense of history does not limit the depth of the fall of the mighty…
The plague year
One year ago posted the post below on the likely effects of the coronavirus on our…
The impeachment curse
The final forced impeachment of Donald Trump has ended in the result that should never happen…
America’s fate: civil war, fragmentation or collapse?
Today after the distressing events and death in the Capitol building of Washington DC that interrupted…
culture / history / literature
Cultural collapse: Delhi 1857
Today, I am reposting this response to William Dalrymple’s magnificent The Last Mughal: the Fall of…
A solution to political decay: the ordinary virtues of governing well
I am reposting this reflection on the response to political decay in the midst of the…
America’s Hispanic Past and its Hispanic Future Proves it is not Exceptional
“even well-educated, amiable, open-minded people in the United States do not realize that their country has…
culture / history / literature
The Coming Renaissance of the Second Culture
Terrible events occur in history that devastate the cities that our minds build. The Barbarians sack…
Our barren, deformed political society
And if and when Trump is no longer President, all the ills of political system can…