Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Political Argumentation

  • Bill Maher versus David Mamet

    About six minutes long. Topics: 2020 election and Jan 6. Tell me who you think 'won' and why. Related: Three Notes on David Mamet.  From 2023. Vito Caiati and Dmitri Dain offer their typically astute comments.

  • Haitians, Cats, and Red Herrings

    Do Haitians eat cats? I don't know and I don't care. I do care that the Biden-Harris administration is violating the Constitution, undermining the rule of law, and destroying the country by importing illegal aliens. That's the issue. Whether Haitians chow down on what we consider pets is not the issue, but a distraction from…

  • Sebastian Gorka Makes the Case for Trump before the Oxford Union

    Magnificent

  • Dueling Articles

    We need to revisit in thought if not in fact the practice of dueling. Later. In lieu of that, here are a couple of dueling articles. You know where I stand. How about you? David Frum, The Ruin that a Trump Presidency Would Mean Steve Cortes, Only Trump Can Save America For the foolish Frum…

  • Political Argumentation and Political Evolution

    Top o' the Stack.  Written in May 2016 but still relevant. I defend the cogency of the  'Hillary is worse' defense of Donald Trump against Charles Murray. In the January 2004 post scriptum I concede that the impressive 'Jacques,' an untenured Canadian philosopher whose name I cannot reveal because of vicious leftists such as Brian…