Six degrees of Batavia
I guess I’m just two degrees removed from Lime Jell-O fruit salad
Life
Monday
The march of the ‘experts’
Failing to recognize the difference between learning and practical experience
Thursday
The rise of the Busy People
The world needs busy people to keep turning — and someone has to pick up the tab
A eulogy for the Democrats of yore
Remember the last invigorating spasm before the body of the party achieved corpsehood?
The ultimate human futility of sports
Sports would not have survived Classical Greece and the Roman Empire
Sunday
Succeeding at failing
Failure is not a learning experience; it’s a humiliating and hurtful experience
Hoosiers of New York
On a March day in 1991, I watched a bittersweet rural New York version of ‘Hoosiers’ play out
Liberalism and existential insecurity
For liberals, everything that exists is a potential source of fear, and everything that occurs a threat of danger
Monday
Blowing my mind in the Electric Forest
What happened to the all-embracing, welcoming spirit emanating from the Electric Forest?
Rum, Rome and rebellion
Men and women of the working class, Catholic or not, are arraigned by progressive yappers for being socially retrograde
The death of literature
Literature in the West is dead for the simple reason that the West itself is virtually dead
Monday
Staten my preference
Staten Island offers the spiritual antonym to elitist performances such as the Met Gala and the Oscars that peddle a distortion of American life
Did the culture wars kill the New Year’s Eve party?
How do we celebrate when all the old pleasures have been pathologized?
Mark Twain in Buffalo
Mark Twain would be hopelessly out of favor with both wings of the modern duopoly
The exhortative tradition in America
To summon your brethren to raise a City Upon a Hill as a beacon to all mankind is a pretty tall order
Tuesday
The language of the victimhood war
To own occupies a semantic field which turns out to be a Grimpen Mire
Thursday
Summer in Newport
Newport is unlike most American towns
Blues for Jimmy Duncan
Jimmy Duncan is a man who knows his place, which is one of the highest compliments I can give
The foremost challenge facing Western democracies
In the absence of a Brahmin class, any civilization worthy of the name is impossible
Wednesday
The history of the American Memorial Chapel
The Chapel is dedicated to the 28,000 American people who were stationed on British soil and died in World War Two
