Ex Libris

All right, all right. I’ll weigh in on the current presidential race. My political views range from apathetic to “snorkel types are more interesting to me,” but recently more and more people have been asking my opinion.
A lot of these people make a career about setting “Politic traps.” The conversation starts innocently enough, and then […]

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
- G. K. Chesterton

The survival of the West depends on Americans reaffirming their Western identity and Westerners accepting their civilization as unique not universal and uniting to renew it and preserve it against challenges from non-Western societies.
Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, pp. 20-21.