The Garden Refuge
From Wikimedia Commons: Classical Figures in an Italian Landscape (Jan Frans van Bloemen, between 1682 and 1749) Read more What…
The sudden long goodbye
Life does not happen overnight. It happens slowly, day by day — rising, working, raising children, laughing with friends, laying…
What equality and democracy don’t share
A distinguished visitor to America in its formative years had something important to say about democracy and socialism. “Democracy,” said…
I’m not apologizing for America, or white people
As most of America celebrated 250 years since the birth of the American independence, the “progressive” left took the opportunity…
The West Still Confuses Weakness with Virtue
Years ago, Michael Prell gave a name to one of the West’s most dangerous moral reflexes: underdogma. He saw that…
Culture of grievance
Every civilization develops a moral language—a set of virtues that it celebrates and vices that it condemns. For much of…
Jungle Justice: The Tribal Dismantling Of Western Law
In 1991, I had the unique opportunity to host three foreign exchange students from the United Arab Emirates at my…