A flowerpot of ashes from the fire of liberty…tokens of hope and truth preserved for future generations who dare to believe that there was once something else.

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A few random posts…

  • Virtue-signaling
    A discussion of the relationship between scientism and virtue-signaling (specifically, signaling membership in the elite) in public life
  • Introduction (Anti-postmodernism)
    It will likely be important for USA version 2 to incorporate some sort of resistance to postmodernism, or its future equivalent.
  • Introduction (Anti-oikophobia)
    An expansion of the earlier discussion about oikophobia, the postmodernism-inspired, multiculturalism-influenced repudiation of inheritance and home.
  • “Implication Vector” in historical narrative
    Historical reasoning needs to deal with the direction of the "implication vector" - does a fact about America in 1776 tell us more about 1776 or about America?
  • Judicial Review
    A discussion of the necessity of a different form of constitutional review. Someone must decide constitutionality, but not an unelected SCOTUS.