Just as I was lamenting the ripening fruits of the conclusions found in The  Closing of the American Mind, written about in a best-selling book authored by the late Allan Bloom in 1987, along come two pieces on the Intellectual Dark Web: Veritas! The above references an opinion article by Bari Weiss of the NYT which can be found here: The Audacity of Learning How to Think! Underground or “dark” answers to withering institutions, totalitarianism, etc., have endured from time immemorial.  As refreshing as they may be, they note soundly the inherent deficiencies in the above ground they are created to mirror. More can be … Continue reading Light, Through a Web Darkly

The article link below is courtesy of the WSJ…. Wendy’s and Me The rule of law works effectively and efficiently only so long as those to whom it applies are in general agreement as to its purpose and need. Continue reading Can You Hum this Chinese Variation on the Cloward-Piven Strategy?

The extent airlines will go to eat off unbroken China! “Gild a Farthing if You Will, Yet It Is a Farthing Still” “Things are Seldom What They Seem”, Gilbert and Sullivan, HMS Pinafore Buttercup. Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream; Highlows pass as patent leathers; Jackdaws strut in peacock’s feathers. Captain. (puzzled) Very true, So they do. Buttercup. Black sheep dwell in every fold; All that glitters is not gold; Storks turn out to be but logs; Bulls are but inflated frogs.Captain. (puzzled) So they be, Frequentlee. Buttercup. Drops the wind and stops the mill; … Continue reading China Unbroken