Eugene Lyons One of the early war horses of of the American Right, Eugene Lyons has not yet gotten his due. He would never have called himself a conservative, nor be called a conservative by most of us who haggle over such things. But having been a commie–”I thought myself a ‘socialist almost [...]
All athletic contests are types of warfare, and those who are put off by that simply do not understand human nature or the nature of God’s created order. What sports are the most violent? I guess one could make a case for bull fighting, because it always ends in death. It’s a contest that has [...]
I just looked up the word in a big Webster’s Dictionary, and it says, “The policy followed by isolationists.” Now, that being not very helpful, I went to “isolation.” It tells me that there are those people who want nothing to do with anybody outside their own territorial boundaries. It doesn’t say what the territorial [...]
{Roger Clemens has been indicted—INDICTED—for supposedly misleading Congress. When we are faced with the Charlie Rangels of the world, who will never be indicted, are we supposed to get morally excited about a baseball player who 1) even if he did take “performance enhancing” substances did nothing illegal and 2) did nothing half so damaging [...]
Bob Dylan Chronicles: Volume One Bob Dylan, New York: Simon and Shuster, 2004 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan Martin Scorsese, American Masters, 2005 Those of us who were mugged by the sixties now have a better chance to understand who the mugger was. The Baby Boomers haven’t worried about this very much; they [...]
(This is in response to Jameson Campaigne’s comment on George Carey’s essay “Nisbet, War, and the American Republic”. The complete comment thread can be found at the end of that essay.) When David was called by the Lord through Samuel, and when he went out to face Goliath, he knew that he was on a mission [...]
This handsome man is not one of the better known faces of the era that some people, for reasons that vary, like to call our “Founding” as a “Nation.” He died on February 14, 1808, and since then has inspired two (!) biographies—one by Charles Stille in 1891, the other by Milton Flower in 1983. [...]
Most of us learn about friendship from our families, just as we learn about everything else worth knowing from our families. Mine is an old New England family, farmers and preachers and doctors and lawyers, and tradesmen, not many in commerce. Nobody up to my generation was ever rich, nobody particularly poor, so there was [...]
John Willson It’s really too bad that so many wimps are running away from the word “conservative.” It’s become fashionable. Now, don’t get me wrong. When Billy Kristol claims that the “Weakly Standard” is conservative, I at least chuckle. When Fox News is called “right wing” I giggle. When the psychiatrist Dr. Krauthammer positions himself [...]
Walt Kelly It is said that Aesop, despite making all his characters animals and thus avoiding being Nathan to his contemporary Davids, was finally thrown over a cliff by the neighbors he offended. Walt Kelly, the creator of Pogo, suffered an even more humiliating fate: He was captured by liberals. The Left took Pogo [...]