“While the crowd cheers the circus, the house of cards collapses unnoticed.” — Adapted from Juvenal In a country obsessed with celebrity stories and political drama, a far more serious crisis is taking hold. America’s housing market is falling apart, and the debt-heavy economy is starting to wobble. Last weekend,…
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.” — E.O. Wilson This past year has been unlike any other. I haven’t left Southwest Michigan—haven’t seen any other part of the world. Instead, I ventured into a more elusive frontier: reality. Writing…
“In the silence of the heart, God speaks. In the labor of the hands, the soul is restored.” — adapted from Mother Teresa and Catholic tradition This past week, I spent days on my knees, cutting through dense grass and loosening soil to build a new vegetable garden. The work…
“The president reigns for four years, and journalism governs forever and ever.” — Oscar Wilde Dang, I’m so ready to smell the fresh air of spring, get outside in my gardens, work up a sweat running by Lake Michigan, and lounge on the beach this summer. As I write this,…
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.” — H.L. Mencken America Is Cracking—Can You Feel It? Some see the tremors as natural; others suspect a calculated scheme. I see both:…
“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.”—John 11:25 (ESV) in honor of Jesus on this Easter Sunday A Curious Experiment A few weeks ago, my son slipped me a chapter from his book about teaming up with AI to…
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” —Oscar Wilde Last week, I made a call that one of Trump’s Executive Orders was the turning point. A mandate for the production of minerals, uranium, copper, potash, gold, and any other elements, compounds and materials determined by the Chair of the…
“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”― William Patrick Ophuls, Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences On March 20, an unusual Executive Order caught my…
“There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality, and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.” – Charles de Gaulle Based on consumption import…
“The future is ours, and our golden age has just begun.” —Donald Trump, Inaugural Address, January 20, 2025 The term “Golden Age” comes from Greek mythology, particularly Works and Days, a didactic poem written by Hesiod around 700 BC. It’s part of Hesiod’s “Five Ages of Man,” which describes the…
“Outstanding, sophisticated, and mesmerizing…a spiritual intrigue similar to Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.” —ForeWord Reviews