Unca Darrell

NOVEMBER 10 / Mark Steyn on . . .

. . . civilization and its disconcertment in response to Major Hasan, jihadist.

NOVEMBER 9 / The fell wall

TODAY IS the twenthieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. To my deep regret, real life impinges on my capacity to honor it in the way it deserves. Just know this:

NOVEMBER 6 / Major Nidal Malik Hasan is . . .

. . . a barbarian. The thing he attacked is . . .

NOVEMBER 6 / Baker deconstructs the Wall

[THE FALL of the Berlin Wall] could not have happened without Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, who disregarded their hawkish advisers . . .

NOVEMBER 4 / Civilisation

IN "CIVILISATION," [Kenneth Clark] warned that Western culture rested on a thin crust of ice: . . .

NOVEMBER 3 / Why Anita Dunn matters

[LAST] NOVEMBER, the American people thought they were electing a "post-partisan," "post-racial" Presidnet who would work to restore unity and self-confidence to the county. They woke up on November 5, however . . .

NOVEMBER 2 / Civic education

INCULCATING young Americans with the new democratic civic religion, the Founders believed . . .

October 21 / Unca D Cornered

THE CORNER is National Review's blog. About 4:30 p.m. today, it picked up Unca D's recent post about science czar John Holdren.

OCTOBER 20 / Mao-maoing the science czar

OF ALL things people are the most precious. -- Mao Tse Tung

OCTOBER 18 / Basic Training: The Protestant Work Ethic

SNIPS FROM a brilliant essay: Steven Malanga, "Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic?" City Journal, Summer 2009 (emphasis added, reparagraphed):

The genius of America in the early nineteenth century, Tocqueville thought . . .