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Mohammed Contra Mundum

November 23, 2019
Author: Chilton Williamson

Somehow public discussion in America at any given time is almost never about what really matters at the moment. Or, on the rare occasion that it is, it is done in a disguised way and using disguised terms. The political philosopher James Burnham, in his book The Machiavellians, explained the two levels on which an… Read More

Schumpeter’s Gale

November 18, 2019
Author: Chilton Williamson

After 1945 when the GIs returned stateside, went to college on the federal nickel, entered into holy matrimony, moved out of the cities into developing suburbia, and began to breed, the suburbs took a beating for the next two decades from the cultural critics, most of them of a leftist and even an anti-American persuasion…. Read More

The Great Portcullis

November 14, 2019
Author: Chilton Williamson

  In the third week of August someone pushes the button and brings sum­mer to an end in the Mountain West, though beautiful weather and Indian summer lie ahead. Typically, the change comes with the dis­charge of a powerful thunder cell, seemingly no different from any other electrical storm but collapsing into a gray leaden… Read More

Please Don’t Smile, Mr. President

November 8, 2019
Author: Chilton Williamson

I have read the results of last Tuesday’s elections, which indicate that President Trump continues to lose ground in the suburbs, among women particularly. Many explanations for his unpopularity with educated and prosperous women, not all of whom I imagine are also ladies, are possible, of course. One of them, I suggest, is that Mr…. Read More

Stan Laurel for President

November 3, 2019
Author: Chilton Williamson

What is wrong with the Republicans? The answer: They are the Stupid Party, as the British Tories were called in the late 19th century. Which prompts a further question. And a further answer. Why are they stupid? Answer: Because they are are intellectually and politically dishonest with themselves and with their constituency. They see that… Read More