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The Ideal, Well-Rounded Person

I love the definition of the ideal, well-rounded person given in the 1930s by J.F. Roxburgh, the first headmaster of Stowe School:

"Acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck."

What Will You Be Selling in the A.I. Future?

 

Boil down your products or services to one word.

Crank It Up!

 

Writing Tip: The Manuscript Is the Enemy!

 

Odd Man Out

One of my brothers goes to Mexico several times a year. He's gotten to the point where he lives there for months at a time, mainly in an area that is around 20 percent American/Canadian for most of the year.

 When he's not near the ocean, he's in the interior. All of it is for leisure, not business.

My other brother recently returned from a business trip to South America and is set to make one to Asia over the next few months.

And what am I doing?

Scribbling.

To Be Re-Read Soon

 

I would rank this as The Great American Novel. 

The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Lonesome Dove, To Kill a Mockingbird, and other fine works compete for second place.

The Age of Trump

But Trump’s doings and undoings are more than merely a reaction to the triumphalism of the period, including the notion that we had reached the “end of history.” The objections extend back to the basic elements of the post–World War II liberal order itself. Though this order was largely American in origin and a product of the unprecedented global dominance of the United States across all measures of power in the aftermath of World War II, for many it has become a euphemism for a system that allowed our allies a free ride on our defense dollar and the entrenchment of trade rules that allowed foreign countries to place barriers to entry on American-made products while the United States opened itself up to a flood of imports grounded in cheap labor abroad. Even after the Cold War, the United States maintained a disproportionate security burden, while NATO allies shirked defense commitments to boost their domestic welfare programs. American-led interventions in Kuwait and the former Yugoslavia went off smoothly in the earliest post–Cold War years, but the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan created a crisis of confidence and fueled debates about American military presence abroad. 

Read the rest of the essay by Tod Lindberg and Corban Teague in Commentary magazine.

Bear With Me

Novel writing day.

Many drafts to be finalized.

I expect that the manuscript will be done very, very, soon.