Seven Against Thebes is a war play that shows no war. Rivaling the Homeric epics in its descriptions of the beauty and horribleness of warfare, the play instead shows its audience the helpless spectators...
(This post is part of an ongoing series about Western culture and politics, and how the potential brokenness of one affects the other.) Since we’re talking World War I in poetry this Veteran’s/Armistice Day,...
Many of the tax reforms are excellent. Simplifying the tax code, while reducing overall income tax rates makes sense. Lowering income-tax rates would not only be good in terms of stimulus, it would be...
Read this hilarious blog post from a New York chef defending “Four Loko,” a controversial alcoholic energy drink that tastes like “malt liquor gummy bears.” I usually scoff at attempts to define our country’s...
The King Drinks by Jacob Jordaens 1638-40 Oil on canvas, 152 x 204 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
…and which make better translations? I find Rousseau more readable in English; Montesquieu, in French. Voltaire was fluent in both, preferred French, and was correct to have done so. I’ve never seen a translation...
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with...
I’ve been noticing a game lately played in the bookish corners of the left side of American politics. We’ll call it “We Know Hayek Better Than You.” It’s a game not without some attendant...
Jason’s post on what is properly called Armistice Day, and the end of the myth of the nobility of war make this pertinent. Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon I knew a simple soldier...
“1. If there are people who want to drink from the toilet, shouldn’t we just let them do whatever makes them happy and keep all the good water for ourselves? 2. If a person...
Today is Armistice Day. It marks the end of an era. Before the First World War, the western understanding of warfare was that it made plain things noble. It allowed superior individuals to show...
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