Category: History
The medieval fool was a powerful character. In the nineteenth century, another powerful fool, Nietzsche, emerged. They were both powerful because they both sacrificed all.
Remembering St. Antony on his feast day: St. Macarius fought the devils. Holden Caulfield fled them.
The whole thing was orchestrated, but the radicals fell for it. One, says Gary Morson, “had his hair turn white; a second went mad and never recovered his sanity; …
LA and southern California in general used to be a hot-bed of libertarian activity, so much so that New Yorker Murray Rothbard moved to California in the late 1970s.
Unless you're crazed with anger or other passions, the one thing that should be in your mind right now is, "Wait, stop. What the frick is going on?"
God is good, so to the extent something is good, it has more existence . . . it’s more “real.”
He landed that weekly column gig in 1905 and would do it for over thirty years, publishing over 1,600 columns. They paid him 350 pounds annually (which would equal …
Do you like those conversational podcasts? It's no surprise they're so popular. People have been enjoying the conversational approach to learning for thousands of years. We just lost the …
And then, in 1720, Parliament passed the Mutiny Act, which exempted distillers from the requirement to accept billeted troops. Every father who didn’t want soldiers living in his house …
Evelyn Waugh liked to send out satirical Christmas cards . . .
“This guy says Hitler killed 4 million Jews, then enslaved a few million more and used four extermination camps not five. He’s obviously a whack nut beyond the pale.”
Any agnostic or atheist whose childhood has known a real Christmas has ever afterwards, whether he likes it or not, an association in his mind between two ideas that …