
With the EPA admitting it wants needs 230,000 more bureaucrats to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act, with all tens of thousands it admits the states will also need, add in the massive increase in bureaucratic power and control under Obamacare and other bureaucratic imperialisms out of the “international community,” I thought it was time to revisit Brazil, which caught the coming societal sclerosis beautifully. Enjoy.
Notes on Anosmia
One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…
Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…