Unca Darrell

JUNE 1, 2020 / If you think of Antifa as the armed branch of . . .

. . . progressivism and democratic socialism, you . . .

JUNE 4, 2020 / "Rioting is fun": Theodore Dalrymple on riot and barbarism

OUR RECENT RIOTS testify to the power of barbarism against civilization. While journalists and professors . . .

APRIL 29, 2020 / Dan Crenshaw's perspective

Alexandra Wolfe reviews Dan Crenshaw's new book:

His book "Fortitude: American Relience in the Era of Outrage" [is] part memoir, part instruction manual about his ability to weather hardships in life and in battle and his advice on how others can do the same. The book is also a critique of what he calls "outrage culture," or what he sees as an alarming tendency . . .

OCTOBER 4, 2019 / The left's war against America is not merely . . .

. . . political; it's civilizational.

UNCA D RARELY posts these days. More to come soonish, I hope, on the reason. Meanwhile, there is no better use of your reading time than this essay: Joel Kotkin, "Elites Against Western Civilization," City Journal, October 3, 2019, set out in full below.

AUGUST 10, 2019 / Bastille Day and totalitarianism

Roger Kimball, "Don't Celebrate Bastille Day," American Greatness, July 14, 2019

. . . . Unlike the American Revolution, in which the rule of law and the institutions of civil society survived the change of governments, the French Revolution was one of . . .

JULY 14, 2019 / Suicide? Or . . .

. . . spiritual wisdom, transcendent purpose?

The rate at which Americans take their own lives has been climbing for 20 years, prompting policy makers and medical experts to search for novel suicide-prevention practices. But one approach is as old as civilization itself: . . .

JULY 4, 2019 / Calvin Coolidge on the 150th anniversary . . .

Calvin Coolidge | July 5, 1926
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

We meet to celebrate the birthday of America. The coming of a new life always . . .

JUNE 28, 2019 / A primer that helps explain . . .

. . . President Donald John Trump's foreign policy better than he understands it himself.

REALISM, long associated with authoritarian European statesmen such as Otto von Bismarck and Klemens von Metternich, has been consistently portrayed as antithetical to American democratic traditions. During the Cold War, statesmen such as Kissinger or Zbigniew Brzezinski were depicted as amoral or even harboring, in the case of the latter, loyalties to Poland rather than America. But in one form or another, no matter what . . . detractors may claim, realism is at the very heart of American foreign policy. It is what helped America . . . emerge as the dominant power after World War II and during the Cold War.

The realist approach served as a bipartisan foundation for Washington's approach to the world, providing a common framework for identifying and defending American interests abroad. Everyone from Harry Truman to Dean Acheson to Richard Nixon to Henry Kissinger to George H.W. Bush and James Baker . . .

April 11, 2019 / Historical amnesia: How did this happen?

Because historical memory is an enemy of the progressive project. Better to forget the past, then enlist those who have forgotten . . .

April 4, 2019 / Unca D holds some van Goghs that are not . . .

. . . included in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's, excellent exhibit -- "Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art." Here's one: