Book Preview PREFACE THE SPECTER OF SOCIALISM Here grows the cure of all, this fruit divine Fair to the eye, inviting to the taste, Of virtue to make wise; what hinders, then To reach, and feed at once body and mind? 1 —JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST A specter is haunting America—the specter of socialism. Suddenly, … Read more
Book Preview Although fascism seems to be dead, it could have a second coming in different forms.1 Walter Laqueur, Fascism: Past, Present, Future Some of Sigmund Freud’s most interesting cases involved people who did bad or destructive things and then shifted the blame onto others. Such cases are now standard in psychological literature. Psychologists today … Read more
Book Preview The language spoken in a confinement center is extremely coarse. Hardly a sentence is uttered that does not contain obscenities. There is no way to convey the sense of place and even the meaning of what convicts are saying without using some of this language. Out of respect for the reader, I’ve scaled … Read more
Book Preview A TALE OF THREE DREAMS Dreams are powerful things. Sometimes they have motivational power, as with Martin Luther King’s dream. King aspired to a color-blind society, and this guided his difficult striving. Dreams can also provide artistic inspiration, as when the Muse of the mind supplies ideas and images to the creative imagination. … Read more
Book Preview Starting today, we must . . . begin again the work of remaking America.1 —Barack Obama, inaugural speech, January 20, 2009 The American Era, 1945–2016. This could well be the title of a chapter in a history book a generation or two from now. A future historian, contemplating the American era, might express … Read more
Book Preview SECRETS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds timorous and slothful.1 —John Milton on the devil Belial, Paradise Lost To understand Hillary, we must solve the Hillary enigma. The Hillary enigma is why anyone—any American, any Democrat, even Bill—would consider voting for her. Yes, I know she wants to … Read more
Book Preview [Master Thomas] told me, if I would be happy, I must lay out no plans for the future. He said . . . he would take care of me . . . and taught me to depend solely upon him for happiness. —Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American … Read more
Book Preview Dinesh D’Souza – America: Imagine a World without Her Dinesh D’Souza Regnery Publishing (2014) Tags: History – Politics History – Politicsttt Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, … Read more