In the ancient world, the poet was not only a poeta but a vates, a poet-seer inspired by divine powers to unlock truth and beauty,…
In my attempts to save what’s left of my rusty Latin, I have recently picked up Lucan. Lucan, a poet from the Silver Age of…
In countless online debates – about Ukraine, Israel, “social justice,” you name it – the same theme comes up: I, and other true conservatives, attempt…
We previously wrote about Amy Wax (comparing her to Queen Dido!), an extremely accomplished academic with a background in neuroscience, medicine, and law, now under…
An interesting way to identify the end of an epoch, the waning of a distinct era, is by noticing vestigial things. Full organs that are…
Detractors of the Passover Manifesto feel uneasy about that august document’s pointing of an accusing finger toward the leftism of America’s Jewry. So sometimes, to…
When thinking about composing this post I realized Ayn Rand had invoked the Comprachicos almost 50 years ago. Rand’s post, astonishingly, seems almost naive now.…
Yesterday’s 4th of July mass shooting in Highland Park was the latest incident in a string of hyper-publicized mass shootings. I believe the two previous…
Non-binary she/them folx inspired by the Manifesto, and wish to start somewhere, can bookmark this page and come back to it occasionally. Our goal is…
An old oddity of mine is that books, no matter their quality (and this one is actually pretty good), draw me into their world where…