Daily Archives: September 18, 2016

There are legions of think tanks and armed disciplines like the Marine Corps that possess a fine grasp of the deep abiding cultural, institutional challenges The Long War asks of the American regime.  We haven’t answered THIS challenge.  If we’re going to win, … Continue reading →

Next year will be the centenary anniversary of the Russian Revolution.  The absolute best study was done by Tibor Szamuely, although one can also place the work of Solzhenitsyn, Robert Conquest and Dominic Lieven as representing the finest scholarly accounts. … Continue reading →

As of this writing, the boys in Beijing are frightened. Their closed political economy was symmetrically ordered to match China’s geography as an island, cut off by vast oceans and an interior unfit for governance.  Prior to Deng’s reversal, Beijing … Continue reading →

My mother attended St. John’s College, Oxford.  She had an aunt who joined a Catholic religious order called the Passionists who specialized in education.  Her order built St. Joseph’s College in Kgali Botswana.  I attended her funeral during the Soweto Uprising … Continue reading →