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  • An Overlooked Cause of Rome’s Decline

    An Overlooked Cause of Rome’s Decline0

    There’s a general feeling out there that America is in decline. This feeling has been accompanied by numerous comparisons between modern America and what has become the famous prototype of all societal decline: Ancient Rome. When we hear about the causes of Rome’s decline, we’re usually treated to a list of human causes: moral vice,

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  • An Open Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives

    An Open Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives0

    Dear Members of the House of Representatives, I hope this letter finds you in fine fettle. This is a first for me. I’ve never written an open letter. Usually celebrities, politicians, and academics compose and deliver these missives, often brickbats of denunciation and self-defense, to be printed in the media. For an ordinary guy like

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  • An Open Letter to the Tyrant of Virginia

    An Open Letter to the Tyrant of Virginia0

    Dear Governor Northam: I hope this letter of objection finds you well in the middle of this lockdown you have declared here in Virginia. As you must be aware, many of your fellow citizens are suffering from business closures and stay-at-home orders. Some people I know here in Front Royal – the baristas and cooks

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  • An Open Letter to the Tyrant of Michigan

    An Open Letter to the Tyrant of Michigan0

    Dear Governor Whitmer, It appears the “non-essentials” are gathering to protest again today. Unfortunately, this third protest – termed “judgment day” by some, makes it a little hard for you to enjoy the contemplative life that government-mandated quarantine would seem to afford us. Yet given that this is your decision, and you have a guaranteed paycheck, I

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  • An Open Letter to Our Kakistocrat Elected Officials

    An Open Letter to Our Kakistocrat Elected Officials0

    Dear Mayors and Governors, In his book The Best Words, Robert Hartwell Fiske, once editor and publisher of the online Vocabula Review, defined kakistocracy (kak-i-Stock-rah-see) as “government by the worst, most unscrupulous, or least qualified citizens.” As one of his examples of usage, he offered this excerpt written by James Russell Lowell in 1876: “What fills me

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  • An Old Guy Looks at Coronavirus

    An Old Guy Looks at Coronavirus0

    Ignorant. That word might well serve as my middle name. I know little of science, though my college professors taught me physics and biology. Higher mathematics is beyond my ken, though I minored in math in college. I recognize the names and the general ideas of certain philosophers, but can’t readily reconstruct Plato’s ideas about

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