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.
Hobbes and the Libertarian – 1
It seems a contradiction, to uphold the doctrine of absolute, unlimited, undivided sovereignty and yet to be a Libertarian demanding the ...
We cannot win on social media
Social media belongs to the angry, the malicious, the conspiracists, the unreasoning corner of the brain. There is no point in discussing how to ...
Gorged Washington
If it was an insurrection, it was a pretty pathetic one. It was a demo gone wild in the last fling of a movement with pretended power. I saw the ...
Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
It is telling, the words Olivia uses in Twelfth Night in soliloquy after meeting the young gentleman who is not as he seems: “Thy tongue, ...
The new challenges for 2021
Happy New Year to all; and now we roll our sleeves up to achieve what the opportunities of the year put before us. Few were sad to see the end of ...
Leaving Verbier
Climb every mountain – the lovely scene at the end of The Sound of Music where the family hike over the Alps in the sunshine to Switzerland ...
Melchizedeck was King of Salem
This Melchizedeck was King of Salem, Priest of the most high God, vers. 2. First being by interpretation King of Righteousnesse, and after that ...
A Great Deal to Do
It is impossible to comment sensibly on a deal we have not yet seen, but it is steadfastness has prevailed where floppiness did not, and Boris has ...