It’s pretty obvious hat the Antifa and BLM people read history and are hoping for a French Revolution. With, to be sure, some lessons from the Russian Revolution. It won’t work, because America has more than one city that matters, but they’re trying anyway. Here’s the playbook. (Though, really, there’s only one play, not lots […]
Why aren’t there more lawsuits about covid-19? This is the most widespread illegal infringement upon human rights in American history, isn’t it? It isn’t the most severe– nobody is being killed, and I don’t even know if they’re being jailed (though they are, I know, when BLM tells the police to arrest someone— but that’s […]
See Teaching Plato. Nietzsche writes in the second aphorism from the section What I Owe to the Ancients of his work Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer (1888): (trans. Anthony Ludovici): I am not indebted to the Greeks for anything like such strong impressions; and, to speak frankly, they cannot […]
I should write this up for my children, even if no one else reads it. 1. Have a computer filing system. 2. Do not fill a fridge, bookshelf, or any storage unit full if you are going to be pulling things out every day. You will not have any reserve space. You will not […]
1. Scholasticism and the Great Asleepening 1a Teaching. 2. Scientism 3. Two Dimensions of Virtue 4. Giving Advice: Rewards and Penalties 5. Disagreeing Agreeably 6. Authority. 7. College Courses of Mine. 8. The Blasphemous, the Obscene, and the Politically Incorrect 9. News The New York Times Doesn’t Report. 10. Machiavellis’ Fear and Love. 11. […]
A David Cox Story. Food and Drink Design Good and Bad Software Best Things of 2020 Phd, Law Degree, or Job? Snobbery and Fashion Pokeweed Parenting Tips Organizing One’s Affairs Government. .Dissertation Topics. Ways to Make Money. The Best People to Follow on Twitter ################################### We think of the young as frivolous. But who […]
1. Aphorisms 1a. Writing Style. 2. Words 3. Poems 4. Useful Stories 5. Typos 6. Quotations. 7. Rasmapedia 8. Wikipedia as a vocation 9. Wokefolk Wit and Comment 10. Humor. 11. C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill or HERE 12. Machiavelli, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Their Friends 12.jkjlkl The Biggest Bedroom Is […]
This is for linking to various controversies. 1. Gordon Klein at UCLA. Petition to fire the Dean. 2. Should Rapists Edit Scholarly Journals. Kurt Mitman. Brock Turner, the Stanford rapist. Rafael Robb, the Penn Wife Murderer. 3. In re Flynn. Mandamus case. Amicus brief . 4. Bostock Fraud. 5. George Floyd. 6. The Harper’s […]
It is conventional to say that Americans hate authority of all kinds. That is false. We hate the authority of God, or of a father or mother, or grandparents, or church leaders, or teachers. But we love government authority. We love to lick the boots of government officials, especially unelected ones, but politicians too. What […]
I should write here on deTocqueville and Americans, suburbanity, suburban inanity, political correctness. With the Internet, you can’t show how long your pointy shoes are, so you show your political opinions instead. I am more snobbish than all of you. Well, most of you. I am saved from this vanity by not having the class […]