Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

“While The Balance Of His Mind Was Disturbed”

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     Boromir strode up and down, speaking ever more loudly. Almost he seemed to have forgotten Frodo, while his talk dwelt on walls and weap...
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Sunday, January 25, 2026

The Betrayal Of The Meliorists

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     It’s exciting and gratifying to see so many people on X talking about C. S. Lewis’s masterpiece That Hideous Strength. There’s a gene...
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Friday, November 21, 2025

Locating The State Part 2

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Drive your cattle to the woods, Francois, The lord is looking your way. Hide your women and your goods, Francois, They’re coming around t...
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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Because They Can?

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     There are a number of observable patterns about power, those who seek it, and those who attain it that the Wuhan Virus “crisis” has thr...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Westphailure: A Memorial Day Reflection

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     [This is a repost of a column I wrote three years ago. It seems to me to capture the essential tragedy of Memorial Day better than anyt...
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Monday, March 30, 2020

Outrage Dept.

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     I’ve wondered for some time why the residents of New York City elected Bill De Blasio their city’s mayor. I’ve wondered why they re- el...
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Friday, December 27, 2019

Quickies: Quotidian Brilliance Dept.

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     Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds doesn’t write a lot at his famous blog, but every now and then he shoots off an important, eloquently-phra...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

The Remolding

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     I’ve sometimes speculated about the official mantras of various organizations and groups. Every group wants a phrase that concisely exp...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

The Cycle Of Desire Part 2: Fulfillment

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     Desires are subject to a dynamic of their own. Any given individual’s desires occupy a priority scheme that dictates which ones will re...
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Monday, July 2, 2018

Quickies: Philanderers In The White House

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     It seems that it’s become obligatory to criticize President Trump’s history of dalliances even in an article that expresses overall app...
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Friday, September 22, 2017

The Unaddressed Question Of 1984

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     ...is why did it happen? What was George Orwell’s conception of the train of developments that led to the ascendancy of IngSoc, the Pa...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

The Power Canard

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     [Inasmuch as the Left has been laboring mightily to eliminate freedom of expression, I’ve decided to resurrect yet another piece from t...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

International Political Meddlers

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     A scorpion, desirous of crossing a river, approached a frog and requested the favor of transport. The frog was dubious. “If you were to...
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Monday, September 5, 2016

Scaly Wings And Rocket Ships

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     It had to happen. Of course it had to happen. There had to be a fissioning of the parent organism – the community inaccurately and eup...
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