Yeah, I know, it’s tough livin’ in the age o’ Trump, and, particularly, livin’ in the land o’ Trump, and the temptation to crack a forty before noon weighs heavily on a lot of us, but stiff that desire, friends, there’s a better way: The Windsors, the low-comedy antithesis and antipodes to the much lamented…
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Those Mean Old Disestablishment Blues: Why it’s so hard to put Humpty-Dumpty together again
Dreary old Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by almost three million votes, despite being deeply loathed by millions of voters, many of whom held their noses and voted for snatch snatchin’ Don. Post election, Trump’s poll ratings have never reached the 45% mark, despite a booming stock market and a steadily expanding economy. So why…
“Thoughtful” conservatives getting awfully tired of thinking. But not all of them.
I remember reading as a boy that one can think for three days on the energy contained in a peanut. On the right, it seems, peanuts are getting scarce. Over at the New York Times, David Brooks is finding solace in Donald Trump’s lizard brain, which, it appears, is kicking ass all over the world:…
Koch U? Why not?
The Koch brothers, aka the Dave n’ Charlie Show, have gotten some fairly negative publicity regarding a large number of donations they have either made or leveraged to George Mason University in Northern Virginia. A recent article in the New York Times by Erica Green and Stephanie Saul quotes Bethany Letiecq, an associate professor at…
Olinka Mitroshina—“Four In One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXQooXwRGjc Olinka Mitroshina, who usually devotes her time to reinventing “traditional” jazz (Bessie Smith, George Gershwin, Billie Holiday), here gets Monkish. Posted by Olinka Mitroshina Mo Monk, Mo Monk, Mo Monk? Yes! Available now from Mostly Monk
David Cannadine’s Victorious Century: A bit too victorious, if you ask me
A couple of months back I bounced a post, pithily entitled Forward!, off Kyle Sammin’s review in the National Review of David Cannadine’s new book, Victorious Century, The United Kingdom 1809-1906. I said at the time “I have read the introduction, and I’m definitely looking forward to the rest. Kyle’s review only encourages my appetite.”…
First Things First: Uncle Reno’s Just So Stories
What do you get when you click on an article in First Things, that heady brew of theological harrumphing first set in motion by frenzied spiritual striver Richard John Neuhaus, about whom I (mostly) snickered here? Well, judging from this piece by the site’s editor, R.R. (Richard Russell) Reno, “End Times Anxiety”, you’ll learn a…
Post Bop Gypsies—“Four In One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4hyowISWlw Tomoko Omura, 5-string violin; Alex Goodman, guitar; George DeLancey, bass. Posted by tomokoomuravideos
Forward!
Okay, it’s National Review week at Literature R Us. I’m bouncing this post off a nice review by NR’s Kyle Sammin of Brit historian David Cannadine’s new book, Victorious Century, The United Kingdom 1809 – 1906. I’ve got Victorious Century already loaded on my ebook, but my backlog is pretty massive, so I won’t be…
Too good to be true
There’s a good deal of yammering going on these days about the “failures” of liberalism, all of it too trivial for comment, to the point that it’s almost too convenient to learn, via the Washington Post’s William Martin, on the occasion of the death of 99-year-old über evangelist/never home dad Billy Graham, that three of…