Yawper

To me, the most distasteful prejudice of thought is a condescending attitude.  Applied to politics and policy, condescension is an infection that enables a subtle and perverse racism, jingoism, and elitism.  Once, this arrogant habit was referred to as the “white man’s burden.”  Today, it threatens to become known as run-of-the-mill liberalism. A friendly, well-meaning, […]

New Yorkers are likely to remember Kitty Genovese.  In 1964 the 28 year old Genovese was stabbed twice and left in the street by an attacker who returned fifteen minutes later to rape her and finish his butchery.   For more than 30 minutes she suffered attacks, screamed for help, and lay dying in residential Queens.  […]

The St. Crispin’s Day speech of Shakespeare’s Henry V tears at me.   In the historic Battle of Agincourt, Henry’s men were badly outnumbered, far from home, exhausted, and suffering from widespread dysentery.  The eloquence the Bard injected into the English defiance resonates still. The valiant stand and the lost cause are among the most powerful […]