In addition to "What are you doing?" be sure to ask, "What are you becoming?"
That question may be far more important.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Tuesday, January 09, 2024
The Culture of Transgression
From Tablet magazine in July, 2023: Michael Lind on a rebellion whose focus has gone from the oligarchy to the working class. An excerpt:
By declaring the democratic preferences of the working class a danger to society, the West's oligarchs justify subjecting their enemies to pervasive surveillance and other counterextremism measures originally designed for foreign terrorist groups.
Miscellaneous and Fast
- Victor Davis Hanson on our rendezvous with disaster.
- Louis Elton on Silicon Valley's humane technology.
- Graham Averill on a new truck-topper.
- Jonathan Turley on President Biden's Valley Forge speech.
- Peter Savodnik on the politically homeless.
- John Sciarrino on Apple's new Vision Pro.
[Photo by Nik at Unsplash]
Bond, James B___
The Bondologist Blog in 2012: James Bond novels that were edited, censored, and banned.
Monday, January 08, 2024
Vacancy at DOD?
Does Lloyd Austin speak for the president? How about: Does Lloyd Austin speak to the president? And while it’s true that Austin’s disappearing act didn’t seem to have any consequences for American foreign policy, that… sounds like an argument against taking Austin seriously from this point onward.
Read the rest of Seth Mandel's column in Commentary magazine.
First Paragraph
Berliners, gaunt from short rations and stress, had little to celebrate at Christmas in 1944. Much of the capital of the Reich had been reduced to rubble by bombing raids. The Berlin talent for black jokes had turned to gallows humour. The quip of that unfestive season was. 'Be practical" give a coffin.'
- From Berlin: The Downfall 1945 by Anthony Beevor
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