Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 16 / "If I can write its textbooks"

WITH HIS FAMOUS textbook, the brilliant Paul Samuelson helped create something that did not exist before him: mass literacy in economics. But it's too bad that . . .

DECEMBER 14 / Civilization slips another notch

Here.

DECEMBER 11 / A new edition of Fowler's

IF YOU don't already know about . . .

DECEMBER 11 / A righteous takedown of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret

THAT'S THE REAL name of the French architect who, inspired perhaps by the example of Joseph Jughasvili, pretentiously adopted the name Le Corbusier.

DECEMBER 9 / The generational obligation

THE FETISHISATION of change is symptomatic of . . .

DECEMBER 2 / On President Obama on the Berlin Wall

. . . President Obama delivered a speech via [read by] video link so milky bland, so smothered in boilerplate, that he might have been speaking almost anywhere, about anything. . . .

NOVEMBER 26 / A day of public thanksgiving and prayer

WHEREAS IT IS the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God . . .

NOVEMBER 18 / Ecumenical rhetoric

ROBERT D. KAPLAN, to whom attention must be paid, sides with the multiculti crowd on speaking softly about Major Hassan. But he does it for a strategic reason, not the hollow moralism.

NOVEMBER 13 / Clicking on the Wall

HERE IS A good collection of links about the fall of the Berlin Wall. I copied them from Arts & Letters Daily. Let's work through them together.

NOVEMBER 13 / Does BHO have faith in basic goodness of our system?

SO ASKS Michael Barone in "History is Calling -- Will Obama Answer?" Washington Examiner, November 11, 2009. The piece is most valuable for this idea: