Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
Mark Bauerlein writes for the Martin Center about efforts to undermine instruction about Western civilization. [T]here is a big difference between the revisionists of old and the Wokesters of today.…
Matthew Continetti reflects at National Review Online on the late Tom Wolfe’s contribution to American intellectual debate. America’s writers, artists, and thinkers, and their media manqué, continue to argue that…
Why should Americans care about the 300th anniversary of the succession of Britain’s Hanoverian monarchs? Michael Barone answers that question in his latest column. We do know that Georg Ludwig,…
In the great tradition of Jonathan Swift, Walter Williams‘ latest column sets out a “modest proposal” for California to solve its fiscal woes. Democrats control California’s Legislature, and its governor,…
Last week, I wrote an article entitled “The Sad History of Freshman Reading,” which detailed recent summer readings at NC schools. It turns out that summer reading hasn’t always had…
If my original post and Terry’s proposal to call it “Think and Drink” were too subtle, the point was more Swiftian than Lockean. I wouldn’t want the Locke Foundation to…
Come now, gents, let’s not have a foofaraw over John’s use of “Brobdingnagian.”
Oh, Roy, don’t be such a Houyhnhnm.
For the vocabulary challenged–among whom I include myself–the word Brobdingnagian means “extraordinarily large.” According to Encarta World English Dictionary it is formed from “Brobdingnag, name of a fictional land of…
Headline from the Drudge Report: Bush recommending Tom Wolfe’s racy new beer- and sex-soaked novel, “I am Charlotte Simmons” to friends… Developing… Why not also: “Bush recommending Mel Gibson’s gory…
UNCW professor Mike Adams has an open letter to UNCW’s director of diversity published in Town Hall today, in which he spoofs the campus diversity obsession with its absurd extents.…