Chilton Williamson, Jr.

The faults and weaknesses of civilizations, like those of individuals, become more pronounced as they age

I believe in going horseback for as far and as long as I can

For the American people, the past is either dead or it is bunk, and the present, being unreformed and highly unsatisfactory, leaves them with only the future to believe in

Overhead the Milky Way was beginning to show, faintly emergent from the celestial depths, the existential wastes of eternity

While this cycle of resentment, revenge and reaction is nothing new under the sun, its ubiquity seems historically unprecedented

The vast majority of people neither living in what they call ‘real time’ nor experiencing life and the world itself at first hand

Mass communication tends by its nature to the generation of propaganda

The left’s cultural triumph

The readiness of establishment liberalism to tolerate the many occurrences of mob violence has been one of the most disturbing developments of the past three and a half years

And how it prevents us from recognizing and confronting the preeminent danger facing the West today

For my money the only ‘cocktail’ worthy of the name is the classic martini, together with the gimlet

It it is becoming plain that civilization cannot go on forever. Does this imply that it should never have existed at all?

Education on a mass scale is adjusted to and reflective of the limitations of the average citizen’s intellectual abilities and his competency

No one reads Waugh, Stendhal or Faulkner anymore, not to mention Hemingway

When everyone has power, no one has power

It’s a contemptible attempt at escaping the pain of being a man

It seems plausible that a small democracy is more intelligent and more wisely ruled than a modern mass one like America