As I write this, it is still Hunter’s birthday, October 7. We have a few hours left. I have resisted returning to the family eulogy
Reformation Day Reads
I know that you’re going to be sitting around tonight wondering what to do in those anxious moments between ambushes by costumed raiding parties, so I have compiled a few Reformation Day Reads for your edification.
Solon’s warning to the president’s men
I was introduced to the Athenian statesman and poet Solon by Russell Kirk and Nassim Taleb.
I see you.
A more insightful writer is only a few clicks away. A prettier face is only a swipe away. A happier family is only a scroll away. We are all in a battle against despair and loneliness. The least we can do is tell one another, “hey, I see you.”
Grand Rapids is almost everything.
If you haven’t read George Will’s recent article about Justin Amash, you really should remedy that moral failing now.
Alexis de Tocqueville on electing a president
The dangers of the system of election, applied to the chief of the executive government of a great people, have been sufficiently exemplified by experience
