Reading Time 🕘: 21 minutes A quick scan of the ever-useful Corpus of Contemporary American English confirms that in our time, the word artificial suggests fakery, or at best a second-rate substitute for the real thing, and often something potentially carcinogenic or otherwise harmful. To be happy and healthy, we prefer things natural. Or consider the devious cousin of artificial,… Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 19 minutes Artificial Intelligence. That was the topic. I ‘d collected notes and was sitting down to explore them when a decidedly non-artificial intelligence grabbed my attention: It was none other than Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and here’s what he led me to think about: Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. RATIONS… Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 17 minutes Religion isn’t the cause of violence in the Gaza, nor is diplomacy the fix. The true root of violence is the cult of victimhood. PART ONE: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON? We were driving through Israel’s Negev desert. It was October 8 and now we were about 15 miles from the slaughter and kidnappings of… Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 9 minutes In January 2023, Time magazine kicked off the year with an irresistible cover story sure to titillate supermarket checkout counter impulse buyers: THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS EXPERTS.
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Reading Time 🕘: 10 minutes But President Obama’s stance was orientalist: he, as an enlightened secular globalist was going to tell Muslims what they are and what they believe. What if a Muslim wants to bring change through violence?
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Reading Time 🕘: 7 minutes We all know how kindly Lenin’s people’s militia turned out to be. And if I might add: Lenin’s kids at least dreamed of the Workers’ Paradise. Ours dream of its perversion: a Non-Workers’ Paradise where the citizen reclines upon a bed of universal income under a cloud of burning cannabis.
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Reading Time 🕘: 14 minutes “The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.” Deuteronomy 28:20 Glad Tidings of Great Joy…. Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 20 minutes Traveling across Mesopotamia and the Holy Land a few months back, I took along William Dalrymple’s fine travelogue, From the Holy Mountain. It was meant to be a colorful diversion along the lines of the author’s earlier Middle East offering, In Xanadu, in which he traced the steps of Marco Polo. Xanadu was great fun,… Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 11 minutes The White House had been in the hands of a liberal progressive who infuriated religious conservatives…As the contest intensified, the nation became polarized as it had not been in decades. In the middle of it all, a foreign power staked a claim.
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Reading Time 🕘: 15 minutes There may be some naysayers who doubt that it’s a serious problem for humans (sorry koalas!) but at last global warming is getting the attention it deserves. Everyone is talking about it! The Climate Apocalypse is nigh!
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