Sound and fury told by the American cultural “elite”
There are few funny stories to emerge from American politics over the last two months, especially…
The failure of institutions in the pandemic crisis
Yuval Levin argues that the institutions of contemporary society, primarily America in his account, have become…
America’s Coming Century of Humiliation
Could it be that the current unrest in America and the disintegration of its political, social…
K.T. McFarland’s Revolution in Tamerlane’s Shadow
Over the last week I have read the K.T. (Kathleen Troia) McFarland’s Revolution: Trump, Washington and…
How democracies really die
I found on my bookshelf by chance yesterday the 2018 jeremiad by two Harvard University professors…
Degeneration
“A generation after the commissars left the scene, positive freedom is more difficult to attain, and…
Do we repair our republics with big ideas or ordinary virtues?
My old boss and sometime mentor, Terry Moran, has given an oration in which he sets…
The slow death of my history
Over the last couple of months I have been reading history. Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The Romanovs:…
The Abyss and cultural rebirth
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where…
A new dark age
It is a dark age when learning is despised; when violence prowls our streets; when the…