Essays

The loyalists were American colonists who rejected independence.

22 hrs ago •

George Washington’s complete writings run past thirty-nine volumes, a bit much even for the father of a country.

Oct 11 •

“Apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables...”

Sep 26 •

American Independence in Verse, on paper

American Independence in Verse will be published on November 4th: I’m excited to share this happy news.

Sep 22 •

Sugar-Coated Pills

Sep 14 •

“Controlled Experiments in Social Pathology”

At the Nuremberg Trials

Sep 5 •

On Beauty and Deformity

Ugliness is the opposite of beauty.

Aug 29 •

Tales of Unintended Consequences, Volume 1

When the Bolsheviks won the Russian civil war, and put their hands on the levers of power, the liberation of women was high on their list of goals.

Aug 15 •

Flaws as Meta-Merits

On the ending of Huckleberry Finn

Aug 8 •

Paradise Lost, 2: the lives of angels, the nature of epic, and “good lines.”

Adam asks Raphael, and you would too, admit it, about the sex lives of angels...

Aug 1 •

“Abolish Marriage!”

Should governments get out of the marriage business?

Jul 25 •

Goering at Nuremberg, 1

Robert H. Jackson was an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court by day, and one of the most eloquent men alive.

Jul 18 •

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