Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Politics

  • Thomas Klingenstein on Trump’s Virtues

    Outstanding! Memorize it and propagate it. I am very happy to have discovered Klingenstein. He is right on target. Here is a short (4:28) explanation of the war we are in. This is the truth. Face it!

  • Which Side Are You On?

    Substack latest. Pete Seeger was a commie populist. I prefer the anti-commie variety.

  • When Politics Comes to be Like Philosophy

    Trouble is on the way. Substack latest. Short, incisive, 'on target.' To the range tomorrow!

  • For the Left, the Issue is Never the Issue

    I unpack the saying in my latest Substack article.

  • Mark Granza Interviews Blake Masters: ‘Woke’ Capitalism and Kyle Rittenhouse

    (Related: my Substack article, The Trial of Kyle.) Here is the interview.  A couple of excerpts: Mark Granza: A decade ago most people would have considered ‘Woke Capitalism’ a contradiction, and probably laughed at the idea. Today, nobody questions its existence. Do you think there are there inherent characteristics within Capitalism that transform it into…

  • Institutions and Credibility

    Key institutions appear to be working very hard to destroy their own credibility. The Roman Catholic Church, the Center for Disease Control, the fourth estate, the military, the business 'community,' academe, the entertainment industry, and the government in all three branches, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial have very little credibility left.  Each of…

  • Which Side Are You On?

    I have criticized Rod Dreher and others for "floating above the fray," for trying to be objective and impartial in those practical situations in which immediate action is required and in which the requisite action is impeded by the otherwise laudable attempt to arrive at the objective truth of the situation.  "Can't you see that…

  • Biden as Fitting Symbol of our Nation’s Decline

    Some of Joe Biden's personal attributes have national analogues in our general moral malaise, our infrastructural breakdown, our lunatic embrace of race-delusional 'critical' race theories and their noxious, anti-civilizational outgrowths such as 'ethno-mathematics,' our economic dependence on geopolitical adversaries for essentials . . . . Biden is corrupt morally, a brazen liar, a serial plagiarist,…

  • Politics and Ridicule in a Post-Consensus Age

    Substack latest.  

  • A Response to Liccione on Border Enforcement

    From my Facebook page, 22 March 2019   Michael Liccione writes,   Totally open borders would be a surrender of sovereignty. Totally closed borders would be inhumane. There must surely be a via media that would be neither. But Washington seems unable to define it, because both Capitol Hill and the White House see more…

  • The Biden Inflation Octopus

    He looks like a farmer because he is one.  He invariably talks sense.  No deracinated globalist, he is rooted, grounded, and  'based' — to stoop to an unnecessary innovation in current lingo.  He's my man, Hanson: The Democrats will suffer historic losses in the November midterms.  This disaster for their party will come about not…

  • From Democrat to Dissident

    This partially autobiographical essay is available here at PhilPapers in pdf format.  It is a contribution to the collection, Dissident Philosophers, edited by T. Allan Hillman and Tully Borland. The essay recounts the experiences and reasons that led me to reject the Democratic Party and become a conservative. On the same page you will find…

  • Extreme to Extremists

    Moderate views are extreme to extremists. Our moderate views must appear as extreme to the hard-leftists who have hijacked the once respectable Democrat Party, so-called by us because it can no longer be  referred to truthfully as democratic.

  • A Sane Populism is not an Anti-Intellectualism

    Here is a statement that is not only extreme but also manifestly false: In fact, you could wipe society’s table clear of every writer, artist, actor, musician, professor, dancer, reporter, tastemaker, producer, influencer, teacher, lobbyist, politician, everyone on TV, everyone who doesn’t get their hands dirty, and our world would keep turning just fine.  If…

  • Comments on President Trump’s SOTU #3

    From my Facebook page, 5 February 2020.  Joe Biden is a disaster except for one thing: he is making DJT look very good indeed. …………………………………   Donald J. Trump did a great job with his third State of the Union address last night. (4 February 2020) He took the high ground and demonstrated that he…