Do you love love? Really love it, love thinking about it and doing it and remembering it and hoping for it? If so, I have a book to recommend: Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment. It is ALL LOVE, ALL THE TIME. And it is gloriously long. Although i like the author, I didn’t jump on this one … Continue reading How do you feel about love? →

I think he can! Although the electorate may be a tad slow to catch on that he’s doing it. Blacks and women are hardly under-represented in elected and appointed governmental positions these days. Nobody thinks twice about it, any more than they think of the ethnic origin of a surname. We already had a two-term … Continue reading Can Trump give us a non-racist, non-sexist presidential race? →

I just had an epiphany, grâce à Roger Kimball on American Greatness this morning: what we just saw with Biden and Harris was the opposite of a “coup”, a term which implies a revolutionary upset of the existing order. But, Trump wasn’t wrong to call it that, because a “palace coup”, as opposed to other … Continue reading ”Palace Coup”? →

Last week, we had Trump’s miraculous survival of an assassination attempt: a martyr who didn’t die! And this week, we’re getting Ol’Bygone’s elegiac state funeral—and HE hasn’t died either! Dementocrats who were begging him to get out last week are now crying on the airwaves about his “courageous” choice, his “sacrifice”….he’s much more useful to … Continue reading Habeus Non Corpus: a Living Martyr and a Much- mourned (But Living) Elder Statesman →

…is today, June 20! “O do not tell the priest our plight/For he would call it a sin—/But we have been out in the woods all night /A-conjuring Summer in!/And we bring you good news by word of mouth/Good news for the cattle and corn:/Now is the Sun come up from the South/With oak, ash, … Continue reading The Longest Day… →

Did you SEE ‘em—Trump’s terrific speeches in the Bronx and at the Libertarian Convention? Two venues where he couldn’t possibly have known what would happen when he entered the arena, certainly had no reason to expect general approbation from the crowds. “The Bronx” is a byword for crime, violence, and lawlessness—yet there he is, on … Continue reading Donald in the Lions’ Den! →

This is prompted by a thought I had this morning: you would think, from the way the protesters are carrying on, that the U.S. is actively persecuting and deporting Muslims! And from BLM et al, you’d think we still practiced African slavery! And that a “slave rebellion” is necessary. And imminent. So, I thought, who … Continue reading Proof that we’re living a simulation (and the game masters are getting bored) →

On April 30, 1970, I was a sophomore at Bryn Mawr College. At my (future) BMD’s little apartment 3924 Pine Street in West Phila, we watched Nixon announce (or rather, as it turned out, admit) that we were expanding the Vietnam war into Cambodia. It was a warm moist night like tonight. I took the … Continue reading On this day in 1970… →