Liberty
No guilt for the virtuous
Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online examines the Jussie Smollett scandal. Since ancient times, it has always been scary when moral auditors audit their own. Or as the Roman…
Juvenal
early 2nd century Roman poet
Liberty
More evidence that out-of-control government is bad
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column for National Review Online reminds us of the dangers associated with an unchecked government. Social observers from Aristotle and Juvenal to James Madison and George…
Liberty
Hanson explores a major threat to free speech
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column at National Review Online ponders whether Westerners have the will and capacity to protect the concept of free speech. Western civilization’s creed is free thought…
Liberty
Br[ackets] and c[elebrities] — the panem et circenses of present-day America
Conjure magic for them and they’ll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they’ll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate. It’s the…
Liberty
We’ll trade freedom for food and entertainment. Juvenal knew it; Time magazine counts on it.
Revisiting Mitch’s post and its image: It reminds me of the Satires of Juvenal (perhaps that is not a surprise). His tenth is particularly famous, however, for lampooning the Roman…
Liberty
Hanson says history offers a cautionary tale for Americans
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column at National Review Online attempts to answer the question: Why do “once-successful societies ossify and decline”? The answer will not thrill anyone who’s been monitoring…
Elections & Public Integrity
Progressives please decide, more democracy or less
It seems that progressives cannot decide if they want more democracy or less. In the early 1900s they wanted more. With the 1913 17th Amendment, they demanded and got popular…
Liberty
Re: No Labels song
Joe, I can’t go along with your description of it as the “unintentionally funniest song of the year” — not that it isn’t unintentionally funny, because it is, but the…
Liberty
Remember the blubbering about mockery not being academic?
The idea, put forth by certain UNC-Chapel Hill professors upset at li’l ole me, prompted this column in defense. In researching another column, I came across another academic making the…
Liberty
In Defense of Mockery As Criticism
The gang that brought us such ideas as “conservative money is tainted” and “nobody at UNC-Chapel Hill wants a Western Civilization program” is also behind the idea that mockery isn’t…
Liberty
Difficile est saturam non scribere ? Juvenal
The News & Observer has several letters today in response to my column of over a week ago. Jennifer Ashlock of Chapel Hill takes issue with my statement that some…