Echoes of Strauss’ german nihilism on the contemporary

As those familiar with contemporary political…

Edith Wharton describes Mrs. Mingott

An excerpt from her Age of Innocence

Americans should be worried

Ideally, a society should afford individuals the opportunity to form both — what are known in network theory…

Two arguments for nationalism more of less lifted from the work of Roger Scruton

Epigrams

Thoughts in the region of advice

· If you insist on carefully measuring each step, you will never go far. I do not…

Complexity, organized and disorganized

The nature of the distinction and why it matters

Strachey on the Elizabethans

An excerpt from his sadly neglected Elizabeth and Essex

The best and worst of Burke

An excerpt from his 1775 “Speech on Conciliation” with commentary

The (a) Paradox of Modern Life

Scale-free and exponential networks, change and paralysis

Strachey on Prince Albert

Yet Stockmar had told him that he must ‘never relax,’ and he never would. He would go on, working to the utmost…