A few gems from Sir Herbert Butterfield’s 1971 Rede Lecture at Cambridge University
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The Lies of Vietnam
Some thoughts on the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary “The Vietnam War”
Favorite Books of 2016
My favorite five books from the year
Gethsemane
Thoughts after the election of Trump
How Will You Spend Your Energy?
On life and the decision to pursue entrepreneurship
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Father Joseph’s Folly
Some gems from Aldous Huxley’s “Grey Eminence” (1941)
Confessions
Some wisdom from St. Augustine
Favorite Books of 2015
A dozen book recommendations
Verisimilitude
The following motion picture is based on first hand accounts of actual events. In the opening scene to Zero Dark Thirty, the quote listed above fades, and recordings of actual 911 calls from September 11th play to a black screen. It’s unsettling—some might say unethical—and it sets the stage to say: this is how history …
The Ancien Régime and the Revolution
With all the hubbub about China as of late, I thought it might be worth reading Alexis De Tocqueville’s The Ancien Régime and the Revolution (Penguin: 2008). A number of China Hands say the Party has used this book to inform their approach to domestic stability and harmony.1 I have no idea whether these assertions …
