The Virtues Necessary for Progress
It is humility, tolerance, and forbearance that Charles C. W. Cooke believes necessary to live in partisan harmony. These virtues, he...
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Ron Baron
Feb 7, 20211 min
Classics Cancelled: Too White
There is a growing movement in the academy, where term-papers littered with multi-syllabled words such as diversity and inclusion prove...
Ron Baron
Feb 4, 20215 min
Nosophobia on the Front Porch
There is an attractive young family that lives nearby. If posed standing proudly on the porch of their modest mid-century two-story, they...
Ron Baron
Feb 2, 20211 min
The Existential Threat Rabid Climate Alarmist Pose
"Yes, Peter, you are out of your mind." In a remarkably honest essay coming from a very woke, culturally correct media site, comes this...
Ron Baron
Jan 31, 20211 min
Progressive Survivor, Alexander Solzhenitsyn Tried to Warn Us
English professor, author, and history buff, Louis Markos offers us his review of 'Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in...
Ron Baron
Jan 28, 20211 min
Not Silent, Wokeness Has Begot Violence
In some sort of dystopian play on words, a popular street sign of the 2020 uprising was 'Silence is Violence.' There is a pleasing...
Ron Baron
Jan 26, 20211 min
Courageous Somali Emigrant and the Uncomfortable Truth
When national policies of finding those willing to provide much needed cheap labor (masquerading as a compassionate global immigrant...
Ron Baron
Jan 18, 20211 min
Time to Dust Off the Dystopian Books on our Shelves
Theodore Dalrymple is a gifted essayist. Well-traveled and possessing a piercing critical eye, he observes the rare, the obscure, the...
Ron Baron
Jan 14, 20215 min
The World My Granddaughters Inherit
I had just become a young man from being a young boy when I attempted to raise my own young boys. Much too young, I think back. I now...
Ron Baron
Jan 13, 20212 min
Government: Efficient When Motivated.
Two major things happened in America today. 1. The outrage of our political elites has taken the political carcass of a president,...
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Jan 11, 20212 min
2020 May Be Remembered as Tranquil
With 2020 in the rearview mirror, we still see the images of demon Viddy with his colorful tentacles lurking and leaping. We also see...
Ron Baron
Jan 8, 20211 min
When the Elites Flee
Academic Micheal Lind writes of the destruction of the American two party system. It's crumbling under the heat of red-hot rhetoric and...
Ron Baron
Jan 4, 20211 min
Toppling Our Past
Academic historian and culture observer, Victor Davis Hanson, penned this essay lamenting the attack on our historical icons including...
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Jan 1, 20211 min
Tell Only Lies
A most perplexing quirk of human behavior is when one will confess to appalling crimes they are completely innocent of. This article...
Ron Baron
Dec 25, 20204 min
2020: The Year Hubris Met Its Match
Seventy-three years ago, Albert Camus wrote a novel he titled ‘The Plague.’ It shouldn’t surprise anyone that it has enjoyed a resurgence...
Ron Baron
Dec 16, 20205 min
A Shop Keepers’ Elegy- May the Spring Winds Blow Warm
Just a rumor, but I’ve heard another of my favorite eateries will not reopen due to the economic devastation wrought by the pandemic. In...
Ron Baron
Dec 11, 20207 min
Festus and the Green Hand
Old western movies never show an old western medical clinic. No long hallway with small rooms across from each other and a waiting room...
Ron Baron
Dec 4, 20207 min
The Architects of Woke. Best We Wake Up.
Friedrick Nietzsche and Karl Marx To listen to this essay, click the play button above. Are you woke? Of course. One must be to read....
Ron Baron
Nov 24, 20206 min
Like a Virus, People Die From Theories and Conspiracies
If you prefer to listen to this essay, please click the play button above. Some years ago, the wife of a president complained of a ‘vast...
Ron Baron
Nov 20, 20205 min
Will Masks go Down as a Debunked 'Wives Tale?'
Just a refresher; sitting too close to the TV will not make you go blind, pulling out a grey hair will not create two new grey hairs,...
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