What is more laudable than the desire to make your country great? You should strive for your country to be a place that promotes the welfare and liberty of its people, whose inhabitants can raise their children and families knowing they will prosper, be safe and be able to voice their opinions and exercise their […]
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Best Reads of 2018
After a survey of my best readings of 2016 and 2017, time has come for the 2018 edition. Once again, I had meant for this to come out in a timely manner in January. Maybe next year. After a less than lackluster literary 2017, 2018 proved to be a richer crop: more diverse and with […]
Best Reads of 2017
After a pretty heavy semester, I finally have some time to follow up my 10 best reads of 2016, with my best reads of 2017. Having changed jobs to teach modern languages, I have been busy reading a lot of professional literature the last year or so, which has given me little free time for […]
My Ten Best Reads of 2016
If Emma Watson can do it, so can I. So after Emma’s year in books, here are my ten best reads of 2016. Be forewarned, these are not the best new books of 2016, but my favourite reads of the year, meaning some of these go back quite a while.
Let’s Make America Great Again, and Again, and Again
“Trust me, we’ll just do it, okay.” Trust him, Donald Trump will Make America Great Again. If Hillary Clinton is right, we don’t need to Make America Great Again; it never stopped being great. Cruz seems to agree with her. In these days of rancour and despair he is not afraid to vaunt the greatness […]