You all know the Bearded Butchers by now (or should), so spend a couple hours and learn the full story behind the Perkins family. It’s an American success story: God, family, sacrifice, duty, hard work, and taking risks but no handouts.
The complete antithesis to what the Socialists want, in other words.
I love my Readers.
In response to this little comment of mine in the last News Roundup:
From the Dept. Of “Defense”:
...if I were a donor, I’d also hold off till they rename it the “Robert E. Lee Military Institute”.
…Reader Mike S. suggests via email:
I am second to none in my respect for General Lee (I’ve a framed print of him in my library), but VMI should be renamed “Thomas J. Jackson Military Institute.”
Gen. Jackson was a professor at the Institute before the Late Unpleasantness.
Gen. Lee was a graduate and later the commandant of West Point. THAT facility should be renamed for Lee.
All good points. However, most people (especially the Racial Grievance Industry) probably have no idea of who Thomas J. Jackson was (maybe unless “Stonewall” is included in the nomenclature), but every damn one of them knows about Marse Robert.
So historically I’m in full agreement with Reader Mike; but in terms of social impact on the Wokists…?
It’s a tough call.
…as we bid a fond farewell to Black History Month.
Till next year.
Okay, maybe three and seven out of the ten listed. (I read Undaunted Courage, about the Lewis & Clark expedition, not Lewis’s account, but that should count for something.)
Of the others, Storm of Steel impressed me the most. Ernst Jünger must be the greatest soldier who ever lived, if for no other reason that he survived all four years of WWI in the trenches of the Western Front, not as some staff flunky or quartermaster’s orderly, but as a front-line rifleman. And not a whiny little brat like Remarque‘s Paul, either: just a man of steel — which could have been the title of his book, come to think of it.
I’ve been wanting to read Last Train for years, but just never got around to it. Ditto Death Company, if for no other reason than to fill in the many gaps of my knowledge of the Italian Front. Both duly ordered.
I’ll get after the rest in due course — it’s an excellent list, so thanks to the folks at Intellectual Takeout for that. (If they aren’t on your list of daily reads, fix that now.)
Am I the last man to discover the excellent War Factories series on the Eeeewww Choob?
If you haven’t watched it, kiss your weekend goodbye, as I did last weekend.
You can thank me later.
There’s also the sulky-looking and acerbic Alexandra Churchill to be seen occasionally. She really, really hates the Nazis from the 1940s — and who can blame her?
Oh, and she’s definitely not related to WSC:
If this is the New Breed of Lady Historians, bring it on.
I see with extreme regret that historian Paul Johnson has died. Shit.
There is a very good case that Johnson’s History Of The American People should be required source material for high school U.S. History classes.
And his History Of The Jews and History Of Christianity (along with Jacques Barzun’s From Dawn To Decadence) should be part of World History classes in both high school and university curricula.
Oh, for heaven’s sake: if you read all of Paul Johnson’s history books and absorb just a third of the material, you’ll still be one of the most educated people on the planet.
He will most definitely be missed.