(A word to the wise—verb. sap. to the saps—: turn speakers and headphones down.) Civility and charity are virtues. Truth is an indispensable virtue. I am not giving up the latter for Lent, even for the sake of the former. I have ripped into the populist Euro-style ‘Right’—with a whole damned book —; it’s theContinue reading “A Philippic Against the Left: Culling the Herd”
Category Archives: political philosophy
The Moral Calculus of War
Politicians—like every man jack and woman jill of us—are inherently motivated primarily if not wholly by their own several self-interests … precisely as are the most ostentatiously and performatively pious, peace-preaching lefties. This does not change the moral calculus of war. Anyone who denies that is a fool, a liar, or, of course, both. TheContinue reading “The Moral Calculus of War”
The heresy of entryism
Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered : let them also that hate him flee before him. —Ps. lxviii, Exsurgat Deus. Today is the Feast of S Hilary of Poitiers, Bishop & Confessor. A patron saint of lawyers, writers, and controversialists, Hilary stands for—and ought to be emulated in standing for—the principles thatContinue reading “The heresy of entryism”
Markham Shaw Pyle, author & historian 