Reader, I promise thee here such things, which ordinarily promised, doe seeme to challenge the greatest attention, and I lay them here before thine eyes, whether thou regard the dignity or profit of the matter treated of, or the right method of handling it, or the honest motive, and good advice to undertake it, or lastly the moderation of the Authour.
Are we at last to be free?
Crawling until we end Lockdown2, struggling, society dying. We can make it though through a week until it ends – but even then we are not ...
Dissolution Of Common-wealths Proceedeth From Imperfect Institution
Though nothing can be immortall, which mortals make; yet, if men had the use of reason they pretend to, their Commowealths might be secured, at ...
To the Extinction of their Democraty
Once the spell is broken, it cannot be woven again, and democracy relies on keeping a nation spellbound, just as autocracy does. (The rival ...
Jacobean court farce
The reign of King James I began to fall apart into farce in 1612. The King was no fool, or if he was, he was as the cliché has it “the ...
And then there was silence
The guns fell silent at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It has been for our nations, the victors, a sacred moment ...
Messages pour in for Joe
World leaders were united in offering congratulations to the man who will soon control the biggest national spending power in the world. Boris ...
In America now
Everyone has to give a commentary on the elections in the United States, apparently, and though I have never so much as stepped on American soil, ...
Oh, Vienna!
This means anything but nothing to me: the city is imprinted upon my mind as much as in the days I trod its streets. It is an enchanting, ...