The Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburn
Judge Ginsburg was highly regarded by her friend and fellow Judge, Antonin Scalia. As he put it, “Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts [U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C., and the Supreme Court], I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly...
Amy Coney Barrett—Limited By Faith
Caitlin Flanagan, staff writer at Atlantic Magazine, wrote an article entitled, “Will Democrats Fail the Amy Coney Barrett Test?” The article is sympathetic towards Judge Barrett but it includes a grating subtitle, taken from the text: “If the judge’s faith has put...
Cancel Culture
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.” - Eric Hoffer. “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” ― H.L. Mencken. “The mob is the most ruthless of tyrants;” ― Friedrich Nietzsche....
Mandarin Style
“The Mandarin style…is beloved by literary pundits, by those who would make the written word as unlike as possible to the spoken one. It is the style of those writers whose tendency is to make their language convey more than they mean or more than they feel, it is the style of most artists and all humbugs.” – Cyril Connolly
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