The title tells it all, but—of course—I have a bit more to write. We are somewhat realistic about the inner-city results of disorder in modern human communities. Gangsters come to local power. Thuggish young men begin to form gangs which fight for control of the distribution of heroin and other drugs in a few blocks … [Read more…]
Rod Dreher posted an interesting essay on March 23, 2016: Millennial Landslide. I’ll start with a snippet of a quote he provided from another source: The percentage of Americans who prayed or believed in God reached an all-time low in 2014, according to new research led by San Diego State University psychology professor Jean M. … [Read more…]
For some reason, isolation is seen as only `isolationism’: a total policy, an ideological hardening of sorts. Even highly intelligent commentators of realist leanings will write and speak as if we Americans can choose only between some sort of major involvement in international relationships or a permanent and total withdrawal. This hardly accounts for all … [Read more…]
I’ll start with a link to another insightful and honest analysis by Paul Robinson, a seemingly true expert on Russia who is a professor at the University of Ottawa: Patriotism is enough. Western analysts often mistakenly describe the people now governing Russia as nostalgic for the Soviet Union, an idea which Putin’s recent statements about … [Read more…]