“..there are of course many exceptions, for real skill will get its reward, but in the long run it is inevitable that the lower types of labor will have an exceedingly precarious life. One of the triumphs of our own golden age has been that slavery has been abolished over a great part of the […]
History
The State of Things – President Truman was clever.. Part 1
Who remembers president Truman? “There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” President Henry Truman. And people wonder why I am such a history nerd. Here is another quote. I think you’ve heard this one. “Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est” “Knowledge itself is power” -Sir Francis Bacon “..Overt […]
Quote from “The Saracen Blade” by Frank Yerby
“..the stags, racing ahead of the packs, terrified by the thrashing staves of the villeins, reminded Pietro of something…. The boars and stags and hares and netted birds hadn’t a chance. There was no skill to their taking – only overpowering force. He had that feeling again that he had had before: that life was […]
Islam, and Bridal Dowries – an Auster commentator has it wrong.
At Lawrence Auster’s blog, in his thread Reflections on the Roissyite Revolution a particular commentator, Tim W., made a statement that ill befits anyone of intellect. Typical of many (not all) social conservatives, he seems reflexively critical of Islam, in an amorphous way, without seeming to have a clear understanding of what it is, exactly, […]