Guy Smith | June 28, 2010
Maybe we should quit celebrating the 4th of July and start celebrating the 28th of June.
Today has been a complex and interesting day at the intersection of America and Freedom. We witnessed another fundamental right incorporated against the states, an enemy of freedom die, and another enemy of freedom approach the same court that confirmed [...]
Guy Smith | June 27, 2010
Adam Smith (no relation) was a clever Scotsman, a constantly recurring phrase.
One book worth reading is P.J. O’Rourke’s review of Smith’s Wealth of Nations. O’Rourke read the entire multi-volume set so “you wouldn’t have to,” for which I owe P.J. an eternal debt. I suspect ingesting a few thousand pages of 18th century Scottish text [...]
Guy Smith | June 26, 2010
Words often betray the essence of being human. Words that describe emotional states, doubly so. They can also show that even hopeless romantics are cynics.
Take the word “enthrall.” Its top meaning is “to captivate or charm,” and this is the typical way in which the word is wielded. Its second meaning is “to subjugate, to [...]
Guy Smith | June 25, 2010
Words are symbols that span from mundane to erotic to cataclysmic.
Which is why bad writers are routinely dangled from tall oak trees. Their crime is the misuse of symbols in such a way that one or another angry mob decided that the poor penfellow proposed something he meant not to say. The injustice of suspended [...]
Guy Smith | June 20, 2010
Many people have attempted writing about how the Internet is slowly eroding humanity’s aptitude for deep thought, but they couldn’t focus long enough to type a coherent sentence.
The theory is that the Internet has made it so easy to find targeted information that our attention is now confined to the small tidbits we seek. Whereas [...]
