Welcome to the Age of Insanity
“This is the edge of insanity / I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t want to be...
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Author: Carl C. Curtis
The Power That Makes Us Small
Where once men and now women joined the armed services to serve their country even to the extremity of giving their lives for it, they now join to celebrate their power.
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Election Angst About What Kind of Future We Face
A recent video showed a number of “Berners” interviewed at one of his rallies, at which the little and not-so-little darlings were asked to define something that Bernie makes no bones about endorsing: socialism. Not a single prospective voter could do so, not even remotely.
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Trump’s Victory: Populism, Si, Conservatism, No
However one slices it, this victory was as yuuuge as anything even Trump could have imagined.
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Hillary versus Trump: What Will We Do?
Donald Trump is every bit as frightening as Aaron Burr, a conniving egotist who hopes to demagogue himself into the oval office and then artfully deal his way toward who knows what self-serving ends—certainly not the policies his populist supporters dream of.
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The Ides of March: Et tu, Trumpe?
If you listen to Anne Coulter, Roger Simon, Laura Ingraham, and Trump himself, it’s time for the Grand Old Party to shake off its doubts, and, in Simon’s words, “love Donald.” However, don’t expect it to happen right away.
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Trump Redux as Thousands Cheer – But Why?
He’ll be the most presidential man the country has ever seen once he’s gotten over his penchant to bully and blather his way through the debates, calling his opponents liars and idiots. And allowing for his whining, he’s tough.
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Trump in Iowa: The Great Gamble
Here’s the point. A responsible, principled conservatism—maybe even a principled conservative populism—might very well have nothing to do with Donald Trump. The good people of Iowa appear to have gotten the idea.
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A French Novel — Submission — How the West Will Decline “Not With a Bang But a Whimper”
Dystopian novels will always have a market for the simple reason that an appreciable number of...
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Trumpomania: Can This Be Love?
After eight years of Obama, Americans ought to have had it with false messiahs: corrupt politicians who dazzle the electorate with their irresistible charisma. But a new star has risen whose past and principles are mere irrelevant details — Trump!
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