February 8, 2021

Profiles in cowardice

We are living in interesting times, at the edge of history.  The grand American experiment is again being tested, stressed, and wracked by the eternal human companions of greed, selfishness, and the quest for power.  The revolutiona...

January 27, 2021

The scales have fallen

When rot enters a healthy body and its defenses are not aroused, that body's survival depends only upon the life cycle of the disease.  Our Republic lives now at the sufferance of its illness.  Its inborn defenses and immuniti...

January 14, 2021

It Can't Happen Here (but it's happening anyway)

It Can't Happen Here was a successful novel by Sinclair Lewis, selling some 300,000 copies in the Depression for the first American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.  Lewis struck a rich vein of material as he deconstructed...