Was it Locke or Hobbes — I can never remember — who said that princes always exist in a state of nature with respect to each other? At any rate, it is clear that the state of nature in which princes — or, as we should say, nations — do exist is a Hobbesian one….
This summer I am once again presenting on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of six movies. The general theme this year is Middle America and the Movies. The films are being shown at the Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street N.W., Suite 600, and you…
[See discussion under “My Diary” for June 11, 2014
The savage, satiric, sympathetic Swift — From The Weekly Standard of June 9, 2014
The appalling decision of the Obama administration to pay a ransom to the Taliban of five of their own fighters, imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, for Sgt Bowe Bergdahl gives rise to the thought: will this finally be the moment when the military breaks out of its 60-year trance during which it has allowed itself to…
Although I’m on my feet at six o’clock of a week-day morning, I usually allow myself a bit of a lie-in on the weekend, and so, as an added benefit, I normally miss the President’s weekly radio address, which comes on at 6:35. I often hear the Republican "reply" at 7:35, but do not much…
Hollywood’s idea of morality and religion, like its idea of everything else, boils down to self-congratulation — From The American Spectator of May, 2014
Apparently, in biblical archaeology, there is something called the "too good to be true" rule, recently invoked in connection with the "Jesus’s wife" fragment of papyrus that some have tried to use to justify a re-think of 2000 years of Christian teaching, not only about the life of Christ but also about sexual morality and…
A memorable portrayal of an interplanetary seductress disguised as a disguised Scarlett Johansson
The best joke from Joel McHale’s appearance at the White House Correspondents dinner — as transcribed for the Washington Post — ran as follows: America is doing just fine, guys. How do I know that? Because we are making a fourth movie about trucks that turn into giant robots. And why are they making a Transformers…
An often funny revenge fantasy for wronged women which either doesn’t know about or can’t allow itself to show its more serious side
