Miscellaneous New Piece at FPR Just in time for spring, my latest:Confused and Contented: On Gardening.
Why Weak Fools Can Dominate Exploring the fool in Christ and the fool in Antichrist. Ivan the Terrible v. Nicholas of Pskov. Nietzsche v. Everyone
Thank Samuel Johnson for the Jane Austen Revival Without his “Dictionary,” you probably wouldn't be able to make sense of “Sense and Sensibility”
Why I Don't Stay Informed I'm glad the Establishment didn't succeed in destroying JRE during COVID. It’s pretty much the only way I stay informed to the extent I want to be informed. I agree with Nassim Taleb’s observation that there’s no reason to read the daily news,