Excerpt

 Along the entire Soviet frontier, eighteen hundred miles in length, the greatest army in history was crouched in the shadows. Infantry, gunners, drivers, mechanics; all were watching and waiting. More than three million battle-hardened troops of the German Wehrmacht were on the highest alert, having just received news that Operation Barbarossa was to be launched that very night. The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union was poised to begin.

- From The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War by Giles Milton

Unifying and Not Dividing

 City Journal has Howard Husock on "Diversity That's Not Divisive."

2073: Crystal Ball or Daily News?

 

Remind Magazine

 

Slogan: The Home of Nostalgia.

Universalists, Particularists (and Assimilation)

 My Substack essay on Universalists and Particularists is up.

In the Pipeline

 

The Books We Build On

 

First Paragraph

 Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met on the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

From Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

[Note: The Spectator World examines why millions of copies of the novel have been sold.]

Brutal Truth

America is lending money it doesn't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.

- Mike Rowe

Poetry Break

 James Whitcomb Riley: "Lawyer and Child."