The Time of Troubles to come in America
“There always is this fallacious belief: ‘It would not be thesame here; here such things are…
Six asides on the USA 2020 election
This long post contains my reflections on the election in America. There are six reflections: One….
Waiting for the crisis to unveil
Events threaten to overwhelm my mind. The world stands on the brink of a crisis, and…
Updated 2020 USA Election Prediction: the fall of America’s Brezhnev
In August this year I predicted that Donald Trump would win the 2020 USA election. The…
Obsession and Trump’s derangement of the elites
Byron York’s Obsession: Inside the Washington Establishment’s Never-Ending War on Trump (2020) provides some insight into…
Captain Ahab and Lockdown in Melbourne
Historians (and I am one) will search for cultural archetypes that explain the strange delusions of…
Poem: The personal is poetical
Today a poem composed in the conviction that to save our culture we must diminish the…
My prediction of the 2020 USA Presidential election
Four years ago, in the wake of the American party Conventions, I predicted that Donald Trump…
America’s fate: civil war, fragmentation or collapse?
There is increasing talk of a looming civil war in America. There has even been a…
The failure of institutions in the pandemic crisis
Yuval Levin argues that the institutions of contemporary society, primarily America in his account, have become…