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Sep 10, 2024
To a certain degree, we all belong to tribes. It takes a strong sense of right and wrong to leave one’s tribe. I’m an Episcopalian, well sorta, maybe, not really anymore....
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Sep 3, 2024
Women friends of mine are afraid to walk out of their houses after dark in very nice areas of Atlanta, New York, Charleston, Memphis, Marin County and several other places. The # 1...
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Aug 20, 2024
Last Friday, Kamala Harris opened her mouth and almost magically raised the price of housing and food at grocery stores. She’s on record stating that high gas prices are...
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Aug 15, 2024
Kamala Harris Is Modern Art
One morning 20 plus years ago, I visited the Frick Museum in New York. I’m not one of these touchy-feely types that get all wispy and teary eyed...
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Aug 7, 2024
Convention, customs, manners and civility.
When my daughter Ella was 16, I met her at a local restaurant for dinner. I was already seated when she arrived and before I could hold the...
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Jul 26, 2024
I’ve always thought that if everybody would just listen to me and do as I say, the world would be a better place. Indeed, it would be a nirvana like utopian paradise where...
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Jul 17, 2024
Joseph McCarthy was largely right about all of the fellow travelers he exposed within the United States government. When the Soviet Union fell and its files were opened, there it all...
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Jul 3, 2024
I really dislike the elitist media and the control it has over the “can’t think for themselves crowd.”
Across the pond, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is making...
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Jun 24, 2024
I have become an Amor Towles fan. Last April I authored a review of Towles’ A Gentleman In Moscow. Occasionally, I have to sue crooked fiduciaries who have...
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Jun 21, 2024
The best summer of my life was working in Nantucket right after I graduated from Virginia. Southerners have a way of gravitating to one another. While other regions of the countries...
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Jun 12, 2024
I remember being at Virginia Beach with my Dad. I was in college. We were walking up the beach when we ran into the Ryland boys, sons of a nice family we knew. The Rylands...
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Jun 5, 2024
I wish I didn’t have to write this article. I’d rather be hanging out on the beach having super models dropping grapes in my mouth, fetching me beer and telling me how...
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May 23, 2024
Cannes, France. I’m here for the film festival. Many memories and current thoughts are flooding my mind. I did part of my law school at Cambridge, where I met the beautiful...
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May 16, 2024
When I was younger, I used to be able to dunk a basketball.
Jerome Powell just admitted that he was baffled that inflation has not come down. According to the Labor Department,...
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May 14, 2024
Christi Noem needs some love. I’ve read the excerpts from her book, I knew exactly what she was talking about. Responsible people make hard decisions. Nobody wants to shoot a...
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May 7, 2024
It’s always tough after college basketball season ends. College football doesn’t start until late August. I go into withdrawal. I need something to watch. Thankfully,...
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May 1, 2024
I’m kind of proud of myself. I don’t want to bore y’all with another article on fiscal mismanagement in Richmond, Virginia, but I’ve had a mini-brainstorm. I...
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Apr 24, 2024
Parker Field was an old wooden baseball stadium in Richmond. We were the # 1 farm team for the Yankees and then the Braves. The place had character. When I was 16, my brother Brick...
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Apr 13, 2024
So what do Gangsta Boo and Douglas MacArthur have in common? Answer, together they offer the solution on how to fix the cesspool of higher education. Stay with me…..
If you...
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Apr 5, 2024
Oh, the hubris of man!
Our expert class needs an ass whuppin. Memo to politicians: just because you sleazed your way into office by talking pretty and saying nothing doesn’t...
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Mar 21, 2024
I’ve had a bit of a revelation the past couple days and thought I would share my thoughts. This article has nothing to do with economics, investing, politics, hot-looking...
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Mar 13, 2024
Hey folks, I’ve got a couple of great ideas. Let’s ban free speech and use the subterfuge that we are doing so to protect children! Let’s also quit trading...
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Mar 12, 2024
So I Watched The Oscars....for about a 1/2 an hour last night. When I first tuned in there were a bunch of Indians on stage whooping and hollering, beating a drum. At first, I...
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Mar 9, 2024
Immanuel Kant, for whom Ayn Rand called the most evil man in history, believed that reality “as it is in itself” is unknowable. It would seem from this absolute statement...
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Feb 16, 2024
We are ruled, indeed lorded over by the prissiest and most adolescent political class in the history of the world. Perhaps they have all been educated at our androgynous elite...
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Feb 9, 2024
What drives prosperity in the United States? How did we become such an amazingly rich country? Is it our natural resources? Educated Populace? Infrastructure? Nope! Nothing propels...
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Feb 2, 2024
In my last education article, Oh The Hubris. The Sneering Elitism Of The ‘Educated,’ I illustrated the vast difference between being...
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Jan 22, 2024
Ten minutes ago, I finished reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons. Thus, my impressions are raw, but I want to record them before I learn what the professional literati class...
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Jan 10, 2024
January 9, 2024
Mr. Alan Garber
Interim President of the Harvard Corporation
Members/Fellows of the Harvard Corporation
c/o Office of the PresidentHarvard UniversityMassachusetts...
Sep 10, 2024To a certain degree, we all belong to tribes. It takes a strong sense of right and wrong to leave one’s tribe. I’m an Episcopalian, well sorta, maybe, not really anymore....
Sep 3, 2024Women friends of mine are afraid to walk out of their houses after dark in very nice areas of Atlanta, New York, Charleston, Memphis, Marin County and several other places. The # 1...
Aug 20, 2024Last Friday, Kamala Harris opened her mouth and almost magically raised the price of housing and food at grocery stores. She’s on record stating that high gas prices are...
Aug 15, 2024Kamala Harris Is Modern Art One morning 20 plus years ago, I visited the Frick Museum in New York. I’m not one of these touchy-feely types that get all wispy and teary eyed...
Aug 7, 2024Convention, customs, manners and civility. When my daughter Ella was 16, I met her at a local restaurant for dinner. I was already seated when she arrived and before I could hold the...
Jul 26, 2024I’ve always thought that if everybody would just listen to me and do as I say, the world would be a better place. Indeed, it would be a nirvana like utopian paradise where...
Jul 17, 2024Joseph McCarthy was largely right about all of the fellow travelers he exposed within the United States government. When the Soviet Union fell and its files were opened, there it all...
Jul 3, 2024I really dislike the elitist media and the control it has over the “can’t think for themselves crowd.” Across the pond, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is making...
Jun 24, 2024I have become an Amor Towles fan. Last April I authored a review of Towles’ A Gentleman In Moscow. Occasionally, I have to sue crooked fiduciaries who have...
Jun 21, 2024The best summer of my life was working in Nantucket right after I graduated from Virginia. Southerners have a way of gravitating to one another. While other regions of the countries...
Jun 12, 2024I remember being at Virginia Beach with my Dad. I was in college. We were walking up the beach when we ran into the Ryland boys, sons of a nice family we knew. The Rylands...
Jun 5, 2024I wish I didn’t have to write this article. I’d rather be hanging out on the beach having super models dropping grapes in my mouth, fetching me beer and telling me how...
May 23, 2024Cannes, France. I’m here for the film festival. Many memories and current thoughts are flooding my mind. I did part of my law school at Cambridge, where I met the beautiful...
May 16, 2024When I was younger, I used to be able to dunk a basketball. Jerome Powell just admitted that he was baffled that inflation has not come down. According to the Labor Department,...
May 14, 2024Christi Noem needs some love. I’ve read the excerpts from her book, I knew exactly what she was talking about. Responsible people make hard decisions. Nobody wants to shoot a...
May 7, 2024It’s always tough after college basketball season ends. College football doesn’t start until late August. I go into withdrawal. I need something to watch. Thankfully,...
May 1, 2024I’m kind of proud of myself. I don’t want to bore y’all with another article on fiscal mismanagement in Richmond, Virginia, but I’ve had a mini-brainstorm. I...
Apr 24, 2024Parker Field was an old wooden baseball stadium in Richmond. We were the # 1 farm team for the Yankees and then the Braves. The place had character. When I was 16, my brother Brick...
Apr 13, 2024So what do Gangsta Boo and Douglas MacArthur have in common? Answer, together they offer the solution on how to fix the cesspool of higher education. Stay with me….. If you...
Apr 5, 2024Oh, the hubris of man! Our expert class needs an ass whuppin. Memo to politicians: just because you sleazed your way into office by talking pretty and saying nothing doesn’t...
Mar 21, 2024I’ve had a bit of a revelation the past couple days and thought I would share my thoughts. This article has nothing to do with economics, investing, politics, hot-looking...
Mar 13, 2024Hey folks, I’ve got a couple of great ideas. Let’s ban free speech and use the subterfuge that we are doing so to protect children! Let’s also quit trading...
Mar 12, 2024So I Watched The Oscars....for about a 1/2 an hour last night. When I first tuned in there were a bunch of Indians on stage whooping and hollering, beating a drum. At first, I...
Mar 9, 2024Immanuel Kant, for whom Ayn Rand called the most evil man in history, believed that reality “as it is in itself” is unknowable. It would seem from this absolute statement...
Feb 16, 2024We are ruled, indeed lorded over by the prissiest and most adolescent political class in the history of the world. Perhaps they have all been educated at our androgynous elite...
Feb 9, 2024What drives prosperity in the United States? How did we become such an amazingly rich country? Is it our natural resources? Educated Populace? Infrastructure? Nope! Nothing propels...
Feb 2, 2024In my last education article, Oh The Hubris. The Sneering Elitism Of The ‘Educated,’ I illustrated the vast difference between being...
Jan 22, 2024Ten minutes ago, I finished reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons. Thus, my impressions are raw, but I want to record them before I learn what the professional literati class...
Jan 10, 2024January 9, 2024 Mr. Alan Garber Interim President of the Harvard Corporation Members/Fellows of the Harvard Corporation c/o Office of the PresidentHarvard UniversityMassachusetts...