This evocative line in the opening scenes of Gladiator, when the German barbarians are about to be annihilated yet again by the Roman legions, begs to be endlessly adapted:
People should know when they are conquered.
QuintusFor example, the …
The Moral Obligation of Civil Disobedience
My childhood was unique.
I attended St. Agnes School in the Oakland neighborhood of the City of Pittsburgh. Contrary to what one might expect, I was one of only a handful of Catholic students enrolled in the school; the typical …
Confessions of a Country Parson
I spent the first week of January in the parish of Weston Longville, Norfolk, in the company of the Revd James Woodforde. The year is 1776, or 1784, or 1801. No matter. The year is not important, because each year …
Are There US Quarantine Camps Right Now?
Two years ago, attorney and Brownstone Fellow Bobbie Anne Flower Cox took note of the New York State executive order to permit the building and use of quarantine camps. The litigation against it is still in process. We might have …
Would You Have Resisted the Imposition of Time Zones?
An intriguing controversy hit much of the civilized planet in the second half of the 19th century. How would we tell what time it is? For the whole of human history, this was not a problem. Schedules were coordinated based …
Art’s Beauty and Outrage
In a winter of severe illness and death, without the aid of vaccines or even anti-biotics, and during a global pandemic of Spanish flu, in the winter of 1918-1919, one of the richest men in the world was working to …
Racism, Anti-Semitism, Genocide, and Eugenics in the COVID Era
Over the past decade, I have attended in person or via Zoom a number of presentations by the Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC), which is located on the campus of CUNY Queensborough Community College. Overall, I have found these presentations to …
The Great Taking Exposes the Financial End Game
One of the very best exposés of the covert, very well-hidden, bellicose attempts to rob all of humanity – barring the miniscule number of psychotic individuals comprising the inimical opposition – of their material possessions and their ‘immaterial’ freedom, was …
When Did the Virus Really Arrive in Italy?
The worldwide spread of the coronavirus for weeks before it was first identified in the dying days of 2019 has continued to fascinate observers, not least because of what it implies for the futility of the extreme interventions based on …
The Big Fail…Failed: A Review
During law school, Professor Alan Hyde, whose office adjoined that of a professor for whom I did research, displayed a multi-paneled Sunday cartoon on his door. The cartoon depicted two students at adjacent desks with their heads down, feverishly taking …
The Dark Side of the Force Isn’t Actually Paved in Black
In Star Wars, we could tell Darth Vader was a Bad Guy as his preferred color scheme gave film-goers a strong clue. In the Real World, the villains wear white lab coats and are feted as galaxy-saviors.
I’m not as …
The Real Purge in Academia
Dissent in America’s Universities, by David R. Barnhizer (Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. It takes on new relevance given events at Harvard and what they reveal about who rises and who falls within the ranks of elite academia and why.]
Covid feels …
The Toilet Paper Canard
Public culture today is replete with excuses for why lockdowns had to happen. Seems like more are being generated by the day and hour.
Fauci last year started claiming that it had to happen because freezer trucks were filling up …
Why are so Many Californians Dying?
Note – the numbers used below are rounded for simplicity and come from state and federal sources.
Covid has claimed about 105,000 lives in the state since 2020.
In that same time period, 82,000 more Californians died from everything else …
The Diabolical Dozen: My Twelve ‘Most-Significant Covid Events’
When a new ‘medical’ product causes millions of deaths and life-altering adverse events, this should qualify as a “significant event.”
I occasionally enjoy publishing “List” articles. To me, these essays can provide larger context on important topics and can assist …