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You're Not a Lunatic? Thank Your Daddy.

You're Not a Lunatic? Thank Your Daddy.

What do the violent extremes on the Left and the Right have in common? They tend to come from fatherless or divorced homes. That's Mary Eberstadt's observation in “The Fury of the Fatherless” in First Things. She recites the well-known statistical facts about fatherlessness in the

Loneliness and Activism

Loneliness and Activism

A Sports Cliché that Can Improve Your Daily Life

A Sports Cliché that Can Improve Your Daily Life

"Take what the defense gives you." Our local high school basketball coach was working with his talented but very young (8?) son. The father guarded his son. The son made the wrong move and turned the ball over. His father said, "Take what the defense gives you.

Read on the Run

Read on the Run

For years, I've wanted to start the "On-the-Run Reader." It would be a Reader's Digest-type publication, but weightier and lighter. The subject matter would be more serious than RD, but the length of the "articles" (more like blurbs, quotes, summaries, and essays)

Five Things You Didn't Know About Your Community

Five Things You Didn't Know About Your Community

There’s a localism movement afoot. The Saturday after Black Friday is now recognized as “Small Business Saturday,” an effort to remind people that it’s important to support their local stores. There has been a corresponding harsh backlash against Amazon and its disturbing gains on the back of COVID.

Google and the Hemispheres

Google and the Hemispheres

The Industrial Revolution had been churning for a hundred years. Results were impressive. Standards of living were climbing. Sure, urban slums were miserable, but many historians believe they beat the squalor in rural villages. But industrialization was messy and not just from a pollution standpoint. Labor itself was messy. There

The Minotaur: Five Short Lessons About the Modern State

The Minotaur: Five Short Lessons About the Modern State

Revisiting de Jouvenel's 1945 classic, On Power “the spirit of domination never slumbers” Bertrand de Jouvenel was born in 1903 to an aristocratic family that embraced the “progressive” mores of the day. His parents divorced. His father married the famous novelist Colette in 1912. In 1920, de Jouvenel

Playboy Taki, the Riviera, and an Elegant Culture of Excess

Playboy Taki, the Riviera, and an Elegant Culture of Excess

I have a romantic nostalgia for something I'm nearly clueless about I tend to loathe the rich, especially those who have money because of Hollywood or, worst of the worse, government. But there's something about the elegant rich I admire, almost in a nostalgic or romantic

The Cell Phone is a Monkey Trap for the Left Hemisphere

The Cell Phone is a Monkey Trap for the Left Hemisphere

Scrolling Blog: May 2024

Scrolling Blog: May 2024

May 31, 2024 BYCU A Newcomer in the Grape Industry It's Vermentino. It resists drought and is cheap and California growers are lovin' it. It currently costs $4,000 a ton (whereas Napa Cabernet costs over $8,000), but as more use it, the cost will go