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#5 in Time Travel
Posted January 13, 2020 By John C WrightLost on the Last Continent!
Posted January 13, 2020 By John C WrightBrand new and hot off the press from Theogony Books! The first third of Lost on the Last Continent is now live on paper and Kindle.
What do you do when you reach the end of all times?
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Roger Scruton: Conservatism and the Conservatory
Posted January 13, 2020 By John C WrightBrilliant aesthetic philosopher and conservative thinker Roger Scruton is no longer with us. I first came across his work in a BBC documentary, Why Beauty Matters, which is well worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc
To honor his memory, I reprint in this space one of his more celebrated essays:
CONSERVATISM AND THE CONSERVATORY
by
Roger Scruton
The observation is often made that political conservatives do not have anything much to say about the arts, either believing, with the libertarians, that in this matter people should be free to do as they please, or else fearing, like the traditionalists, that a policy for the arts will always be captured by the Left and turned into an assault on our inherited values. Of course, there is truth in both those responses; but they are not the whole truth, and in my view one reason for the precarious state of the arts in our public culture today is that conservatives — who often come out near the top in fair elections — have failed to develop a clear cultural policy and to understand why, philosophically, such a policy matters.
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Amazons are as Mythical as Centaurs II
Posted January 13, 2020 By John C WrightPart of an ongoing discussion begun here.
All sane folk with a passing familiarity with human life on Earth, recognize that putting a female swordsman into medieval-style combat, to fight hand to hand against the trained male soldiers of the enemy, is not merely unrealistic in the way that unicorns or dragons are unrealistic. It is unrealistic in the way that Zatoichi the blind swordsman is unrealistic.
The counter arguments, such as they are, are weak.
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Interview: the Last Straw
Posted January 10, 2020 By John C WrightMy latest novel ‘THE LAST STRAW’ is an analysis, criticism, and screed against the second film in the Disney Star Wars trilogy, THE LAST JEDI, uttered with all the disappointed outrage of an offended fanboy, adorned by the wickedly poisoned pen of an editorial opinion-writer, but composed with the cold, critical eye of a professional storyteller.
CS Lewis Poetry Discussion
Posted January 10, 2020 By John C WrightZaklog the Great, Nate the Mediocre, and I beguile the time by discussing “A Cliche Came Out of Its Cage” by C.S. Lewis
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Amazons are as Mythical as Centaurs
Posted January 9, 2020 By John C WrightSo I am given to understand that Andrew Klavan, pundit and author, publicly said that women could not picked up a sword and rush off into the thick of combat facing doughty warriors of the masculine persuasion, similarly armed, in a medieval setting, and hope to survive.
Apparently this cause a fury and a twitterstorm and a blithering argument of those who disagree.
No one has asked me my opinion, but, just for the record, Klavan is correct and those of contrary opinion are blind in the thinking box, displaying a contemptuous disregard for facts.
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Meme for Today
Posted January 9, 2020 By John C WrightFound in a random spot in the wilds of the Internet:
Can anyone confirm the accuracy of this? What the companies are?
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When Mortals Say ‘Ends Justify Means’, Do Devils Smile
Posted January 8, 2020 By John C WrightFrom the pen of Lev Kopalev (emphasis added):
With the rest of my generation I firmly believed that the ends justified the means. Our great goal was the universal triumph of Communism, and for the sake of that goal everything was permissible—to lie, to steal, to destroy hundreds of thousands and even millions of people, all those who were hindering our work or could hinder it, everyone who stood in the way. And to hesitate or doubt about all this was to give in to “intellectual squeamishness” and “stupid liberalism,” the attributes of people who “could not see the forest for the trees.”
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Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 12 The Grimoire
Posted January 8, 2020 By John C WrightWherefore by their Fruits, Episode 12 The Grimoire, is now posted.
In which Princox stands in the rain, and debates whether to leave his cataian life behind, but a strange light comes into his eyes when he contemplates the jazerant and wings of the Iatros’ levitation gear lying in the grass before him.
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My Predictions for the 20’s
Posted January 8, 2020 By John C WrightMy prediction is that when the Left fails, it will shatter rather than erode.
The complexity and fragility of the worldview, and the interconnected nature of all their lies, requires an enormous maintenance effort, and an excruciating attention to detail.
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Not Tired of Winning XCVI
Posted January 8, 2020 By John C WrightCNN agreed Tuesday to settle a lawsuit with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann.
The amount of the settlement was not made public during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Covington, Kentucky.
Sandmann’s lawsuit sought $800 million from CNN, the Washington Post and NBC Universal.
Trial dates are still not set for Sandmann’s lawsuit against NBC Universal and the Washington Post.
My comment:
I assume that if Hillary had been elected, Nick Sandmann would have found dead in Fort Marcy Park or the Metropolitan Correctional Center, and the death ruled a suicide. So, while this is not directly due to the election of Donald Trump, it is a sign that Aslan is on the move.
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Not Tired of Winning XCV
Posted January 7, 2020 By John C WrightThis is one from earlier this year, but admit all the winning and winning, I had not noticed it. It is actually a policy I first heard trumpeted by Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich back in the 1980’s, in the last millennia. I did not hear any campaign speeches about it, nor any mention in the news, nor any public debate.
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Not Tired of Winning XCIV
Posted January 6, 2020 By John C WrightSome observers call this a greater victory, of more significance, even than the end of Bin Laden or al-Baghdadi.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Qassem Soleimani, the architect of Iran’s shadow wars and military expansion in the Middle East that brought the Islamic Republic to the brink of conflict with the U.S., has been killed. He was 62.
Maj. Gen. Soleimani was killed in a U.S. airstrike when traveling in a convoy to Baghdad. The U.S. Department of Defense said Gen. Soleimani was targeted after intelligence learned that Iran was actively developing plans to attack U.S. servicemen and diplomats in the region.
From The Atlantic:
“General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region,” the Defense Department statement said, declaring Soleimani responsible for a series of attacks on U.S.-led coalition bases over the past several months—including one in late December that killed an American contractor. “We know that the intent of this last attack was, in fact, to kill” Americans, Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a press conference yesterday morning, noting that about 100 U.S. military personnel were at the attacked compound in December, in addition to about 200 contractors. “Thirty-one rockets aren’t designed as a warning shot.”
That strike prompted U.S. strikes against five targets in Iraq and Syria where an Iranian-backed militia, Kataib Hezbollah, was operating. The leader of that militia, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who also served as an adviser to Soleimani, was reported killed alongside the Quds Force commander.
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Not Tired of Winning XCIII
Posted January 4, 2020 By John C WrightThis week, in addition to Christmas and the Feast of Stephen, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Innocents, and remember those children slaughtered by King Herod. It seems an appropriate time.
Over 200 lawmakers (including two Democrats) signed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Louisiana pro-life law it is considering.
The brief is here.
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