Time to Save History

History-lovers unite!

My Substack essay on the importance of history is up!

History, Italian Style

 

Keep in Mind

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

- Will Durant 

Some Thoughts on Writing

 Interested in writing?

Take some time to read the thoughts of economist and prolific author Thomas Sowell.

This Looks Fascinating

 

The Only Option

 

Banks Bots

 I spent part of this morning listening as a once-loyal bank customer told me how much she "hated" the bank's latest chatbot technology.

This not a financially unsavvy person. Nor is she a Luddite.

For the near future, she'll be visiting the bank more often.

But beyond the near future?

[I can imagine the bank's response: She'll have no choice. But I'm not sure if that is true.]

Remedial Studies

“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, and still they continue to lie.”

 — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

All college students, regardless of their fields of study, should read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; The First Circle; and The Gulag Archipelago.

Their teachers should do so as well.

[Photo by Kacper G at Unsplash]

Two Chapters of This and Then Two of That

I read a lot, but I don't think I read enough. Top of current stack:

Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood