The Clown World Zeitgeist

Unless the America of the present rediscovers the task charged to government within the Preamble of our Constitution―“We the People of the United States, in order form a more perfect union”―the future looks to be communist ‘red’… or as absurd as a clown.

[Documentary] Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism, Hour 2: Revolutions

Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism (2005) is a three-hour PBS documentary film (sometimes recut as a 3 episodes documental mini-series) hosted by Ben Wattenberg and narrated by Henry Strozier. The series’ Executive Producer is Andrew Walworth. The documentary begins with the pronouncement: “This 3-hour documentary explores one of the most powerful political ideas in…

The Monastery of the Mind and ‘The New Patriotism’

Conservative scholar Victor Davis Hanson introduced the metaphor of ‘the monastery of the mind’ in his column for National Review — a self-imposed exile by the average American from the brutality of postmodern politics ‘into mental mountaintops’. Here is where ‘dreams of the past and fantasies of the future’ can alone be conceived and imagined, unscathed…

The Democrats’ Transition from Liberalism to Marxism: Building Socialism Under a “New Republic”

In reading Democrats and wealthy entertainers’ repeatedly praise Communist China’s health care initiatives for women or similarly support “banana republic” regimes like Venezuela on the brink of collapse, I often reflect on the late owner of the Cincinnati Reds Marge Schott’s similar fondness for Adolf Hitler’s infrastructural projects and polity during the Third Reich. Suffice…