In his magisterial work, The City of God, Saint Augustine of Hippo distinguished two kinds of fundamental human associations, embodying two mutually incompatible worldviews.  These associations he referred to as “cities.” They co-exist within the world. The first city Augustine called “the City of God” or “the Heavenly City.”  The other he referred to as…

As we are forced to endure the Great UnReason of 2020—the Big Government/Big Media orchestrated mass hysteria over COVID-19—all of us who value reason and liberty, particularly self-identified conservatives, would be well served to revisit more sober voices from our past. Edmund Burke, the “patron saint” of modern conservatism, is one good place to start.…

Whenever you read of the effects of “the Coronavirus Pandemic” or anything along these lines, know that it is not COVID-19, but the reaction to it, the rise of the Flat-Curve Society and the Corona Walkers (or, as my friend calls them, the “Coronaites”), that has left, within the span of about a month, has…

“This [Northern Conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. “What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of…

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