I am politely asking you to purchase my book. I can assure you, with no exaggeration, it is the best debut novel I have ever written. Thank you. #HistFic#SilentService#WW2 https://t.co/WMudQkiXkk
The Bolsheviks were a tiny extremist group nobody took seriously. They could have been crushed at any time. Until one day, they couldn't. Soon they had control of all of Russia. They were insane. But that did not matter. They were organized and committed. They ruled for 74 years.
Bret Stephens: “To exist as a sentient American in the age of Trump is to live in a perpetual cringe — morally, aesthetically, intellectually, politically.” https://t.co/bjuzNUjkxj
The only nuclear power plant the U.S. built in the 21st century cost $30 billion and took 15 years to complete.
For the same amount of money, China is currently scheduled to get 11 new reactors — in about five years.
@exjon They identify with the federal government, not with the country--and they suffer from cognitive dissonance when the federal government is not under their control.
To quote a great Boethius scholar, “I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one..”
Now there’s an attitude with proper theology and geometry.
The root problem is Bret Stephens’ caring what other people think about him (especially those he has chosen as “his betters”). That’s an insecurity he should’ve outgrown by middle-age.
When music brings people together… One lone piper from Scotland and Boston’s finest bucket-drum maestro somehow created the collaboration nobody knew they needed 🥹