Examples gross as earth exhort me:Witness this army of such mass and chargeLed by a delicate and tender prince,Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'dMakes mouths at the invisible event,Exposing what is mortal and unsureTo all that fortune, death and danger dare,Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be greatIs not to stir without great argument,But greatly to find quarrel in a strawWhen honour's at the stake. Think about Hamlet’s observation there for a moment. To be great is to quarrel over … [Read more...] about When Honor is at Stake
James Bowman
Media Madness
If you want to understand the Presidential Election of 2020, you really ought to read a book published in 2008. James Bowman, Media Madness The Corruption of Our Political Culture. (Bowman writes a monthly column on the media for the New Criterion, which is also always well worth reading.) The thesis is in the title: The Media are Mad, not angry mad, but the type of madness that produces “the real arrogance of assuming that no other belief is possible without the assumption of the … [Read more...] about Media Madness