Is there something to be said for enforced stillness? The post The Lessons Extracted from a Migraine appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Lessons Extracted from a Migraine Is there something to be said for enforced stillness? “I said I think that a guy who’s always interested in the condition of the world and changing it either has no problems of his own or refuses to face them,” said the novelist Henry Miller in a talking-head segment from Warren Beatty’s much-honored 1981 biopic of the Communist journalist John Reed, Reds. Although the film itself worked overtime to aggrandize its protagonist—he was, after all, played by Beatty, then in full command of his charm and screen presence—Miller did the opposite: The sly, devilish author of Tropic of…Open
Nixonmaxxers turn a good but flawed statesman into an idol. The post Why All The Hype For Nixon? appeared first on The American Conservative .
History Why All The Hype For Nixon? Nixonmaxxers turn a good but flawed statesman into an idol. (Bettmann / Contributor/Getty Images) More than three decades after his death, Richard Milhouse Nixon is finally having his moment. A new generation of conservatives has come to admire the 37th president. They see him as the model Republican leader, far superior to Ronald Reagan and even Donald Trump. Hype edits of his speeches regularly go viral on social media. To those who partake in Nixonmaxxing, as the phenomenon has been dubbed, he is the man who nearly saved America—until the deep state took him out. On the one…Open
The UK’s law enforcement is more oriented towards social peace than towards justice. The post Politicizing the Widdecombe Murder Shows Why British Police Are Despised appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Politicizing the Widdecombe Murder Shows Why British Police Are Despised The UK’s law enforcement is more oriented towards social peace than towards justice. TakiMag Photo by: Peter Titmuss/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images When I was about 6 or 7 years old, I was questioned by the British police. Two friends and I had been accosted in the park by a man who had exposed himself and masturbated. We did not really understand what he was doing, but I must have provided a description of this strange conduct to my mother, who called the police. A policeman arrived that evening,…Open
The Bundibugyo Ebola virus takes its name from this small town, where it was first discovered in 2007. Now, the species has returned to eastern Congo, halting life on a busy border.
The Maine Democratic Party has been scrambling to choose a new nominee after Graham Platner was accused by a former girlfriend of sexually assaulting her in 2021.