Editor’s note: Originally posted by Last Redoubt at https://lastredoubt.substack.com/p/old-ways Paper has a lot of problems. It’s bulky. It catches fire. More to the point, if I want to send something on paper
"It was in these disastrous days that Chateaubriand arose, and bent the force of his lofty mind to restore the fallen but imperishable faith of his fathers."
If we had to single out the special excellence which marks Ammianus as a writer of history, we should find it in his distinct gift for life-like portraiture.
I’ve noticed something strange since I came to Idaho nearly five years ago. Many Republicans whose families migrated to this region before Idaho was even a state are the most outspoken voices
A few months ago, I lauded the virtue of keeping open lines of communication with people on all sides of the political spectrum. Today I want to present a corollary, one that
From the information coming out about the Titan submersible, it feels like Aeschylus could have written this play himself, but would have said, “This is so blatantly obvious that nobody will be
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Napoleon’s Marshals, by R. P. Dunn-Pattison (published 1909). “Go on, Ney; I am satisfied with you; you will make your way.” So spoke a captain
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