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🎼 Ruminations, Birdseed, and Tchaikovsky’s Resonant Architecture

Anna Fedorova 1. Morning Intentions and the Creative Block As a resolute soccer fan, I am guilty of spending far too much time watching...

Jul 6, 20254 min read

Adjusting to Life in Germany: A Wistfully Practical Guide

I spent nine of my formative years living in Europe, albeit not continuously. The first three years, between 1949 and 1952, living with...

Jul 6, 20257 min read

Review of WSJ "No One is 'Gutting' the Safety Net"

Proposed changes to the safety net, such as adding work requirements and tightening eligibility, are causing controversy and fear of...

Jul 5, 20255 min read

Review: The Meh Tax Bill That Has to Pass — Pragmatism or Policy Complacency?

Tax Rate vs. Tax Treaty--visualizing the framework around the current 'meh' tax bill The Wall Street Journal editorial board’s recent...

Jul 2, 20251 min read

Understanding Tariffs: Insights from John Steele Gordon

In his incisive essay, “Tariffs in American History” (1), historian John Steele Gordon provides a sweeping survey of the role tariffs...

May 28, 20254 min read

'Big Boys' and Broken Promises: How Bureaucracy Bankrupted the American Academy

What supports the mortarboards? The British sit-com Big Boys is, on the surface, a clever office comedy. But beneath the laughter lies...

May 3, 20254 min read

Rest in peace, BSA. You were once a treasured institution!

Tombstone representing the life of a treasured institution https://www.prageru.com/video/girling-the-boy-scouts I became a member of the...

May 2, 20254 min read

What We Commemorate, and Why

Creator: Jeff Ferguson | Credit: photogeek - stock.adobe.com Two hundred and fifty years ago, on the night of April 18, 1775, a...

Apr 29, 20252 min read

Do Tax Cuts Work? A Look at the Data

15 April Annual Nightmare The question of whether tax cuts "work" remains one of the most enduring and contentious issues in economic...

Apr 18, 20253 min read

Review of Michele Bogart's "Municipal Decay"

The New Criterion, February 2025 Taber Sears mural, NYC Council Chambers ** In her incisive article Municipal Decay , published in the...

Apr 11, 20252 min read

A Sonnet for a Steadfast Man Turning 45

Alarm the morning! Wake his day! Rise early, your labor’s just begun For devotion, love, and duty stay atop your thoughts as Sol...

Apr 10, 20251 min read

The Paradox of Outrage

The Paradox of Outrage: Barbarism, Benevolence, and the Postmodern Ethos In an age that professes to have transcended the crude binaries...

Apr 5, 20256 min read

Sum of us all.

Newton, Pascal & Bernoulli Between each age, an infinite span, A river of moments, each part of the plan. No line, no curve, no simple...

Mar 13, 20251 min read

The Contemporary Relevance of Washington’s Three Warnings in His Farewell Address

George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796) remains one of the most prescient and enduring political statements in American history. In...

Mar 13, 20253 min read

Solzhenitsyn's Thoughts on Culture

The Depletion of Culture: Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Enduring Warning Alexander Solzhenitsyn Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the renowned Russian...

Mar 11, 20252 min read

Courage Beyond Comprehension

No trumpet sounds, yet forth they go with grace, A chosen band whom Fate itself obeys. They scorn the sloth of time, nor seek embrace Of...

Mar 10, 20251 min read

Hymn to Heroes

They march where silence weaves its solemn thread, Where twilight lingers, heavy, cold, and deep. Through fire and storm, where weaker...

Mar 10, 20251 min read

Sonnet for Service

With steadfast hearts and purpose bold they stand, A chosen few who answer duty’s call. Through trials fierce, through fire, sea, and...

Mar 10, 20251 min read

The Troll Beneath the Bridge and Bed

Beneath the bridge, beneath the bed, Where creeping things and fiends have tread, Where whispering winds in hollow moan Do speak of...

Mar 10, 20252 min read

Words for Lisa

Faith Beyond Our Understanding Presents a Light Beyond the Clouds I write—but words are spectral things, They dance like wraiths in...

Mar 10, 20251 min read