A Eulogy to Brain Cells That Were Killed in Socialization
“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,” said Darcy, “of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.
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Author: J.A.A. Purves
What Ought To Be the Most Important Cultural & Political Issue of the 21st Century: Education
“Verbal SAT scores in the United States took a nosedive in the 1960s, and since then they have remained flat.
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Frances Ha (2012) – Noah Baumbach
“As individuals, we find that our development depends upon the people whom we meet in the course of our lives.
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Black Mirror (2011) – Charlie Brooker
“As we contemplate the world converted into a huge machine and managed by engineers, we gradually grow aware of its
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Reflections on Being an Army Veteran in the 21st Century
“What life to lead and where to go After the War, after the War? We’d often talked this way before.
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On Houses Divided vs. Houses That Need Cleaning
On October 28, 2013, Ramesh Ponnuru & Rich Lowry posted an essay over at National Review analyzing the fallout from this whole sordid
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Tinkering Tinseled Time
Tall tattered tinkering tinseled time (as if I could call it mine) – weaving wondrous webs; weighty, weak, wild, seeping
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Sleaze, Dreck, Distraction and Yellow Journalism
These are the ills the teeming Press supplies, The pois’nous springs from learning’s fountain rise; Not there the wise alone
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On Being Young and Conservative in the Twenty-First Century
Over the last decade, the primary sensation of being a young conservative can only be described as a sinking feeling
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