https://www.steynonline.com/10397/melting-down The Mark Steyn ShowJune 22, 2020
Month: June 2020
Yes, Lincoln and the Union Freed the Slaves
In short, African Americans were not passive in the face of slavery, but they could not and did not end it by themselves. Black abolitionists, slave rebellions, and fugitive slaves all put moral and political pressure on the American system. But how the system responded, and the choices and sacrifices it made, were the result…
John Bolton’s temper tantrum
At base, Bolton’s conduct, both during his White House tenure and since his departure, is the behavior of a man who was unable to accept that he was an adviser to the president, not the president. Rather than embrace the opportunity Trump gave him to have a seat at the table of the world’s most…
The moral dimension of our national trauma
Guardini would have understood all this. To the question “What can be done?” he gave this reply: “First of all, man must accept the full measure of his responsibility; but to be able to do this, he must regain his right relation to the truth of things, to the demands of his own deepest self,…