Paul Johnson is dead at 94. He contributed to the only United States History survey textbook that I ever found palatable. It took the eloquent stylings and dogged scholarship of a man, not trained as a professional historian, to show the schooled of the discipline just how to do it right. Johnson’s Modern Times (1984)…
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Recently, I got to go to Las Vegas for a few days. I had great time walking the Strip. I really enjoyed some off-the-beaten path adventures with my wife, including a magic show in a speakeasy and some gourmet donuts from Saint Honoré Bakery. They even had fantastic pizza, so breakfast and lunch were covered…
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“How long until there’s nothing left at all?” This is the season, this is the time of lamentation. I suspect that bluegrass, perhaps along with just the plain old blues, might be the only two musical genres fit to express the sentiments of the remnant of the healthy and the sane, we who are left…
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Almost without exception, Nazi analogies are lazy and generally inaccurate. But leave it to the Covid totalitarian-hysterics of our time to make them relevant again. It’s not just the marking with masks and the segregation of children in school. Here’s the New Zealand prime minister saying your life as you know it has basically ended…
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