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As emailed July 8, 2026: E ffective at once - "and not a moment too soon", as so say all a' youse - I shall crank up what H.L. Mencken would call "the old wheezing of the melodeon" and commence posting to my antique blog my formerly Gmailed  jeux d'esprit .* * Merriam-Webster , fittingly enough ( highlighter added):  A jeu d'esprit (literally "play of the spirit" or "play of the mind") is a French phrase used in English to describe a witty, light-hearted, or clever piece of writing, artwork, or spoken remark. It showcases intellectual agility and humor rather than deep, serious substance .** ** ("His talents are of such delicacy they can scarce be discerned by the human eye ..."  - My Ideal Reviewer. , to which I ...

David French: "[FBI pick Kash] Patel is so absurdly devoted to [45/47] that he wrote a children's book about him called 'The Plot Against the King,' in which he describes the Russia investigation as a plot by 'Hillary Queenton' against 'King Donald.' "In December 2023, he told [45's] former adviser Steve Bannon, 'We're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.' "'We're going to come after you,' he continued, 'whether it's criminally or civilly. We'll figure that out.'" https://www.nytimes.com/live/ 2024/11/26/opinion/thepoint/ patel-trump-fbi-loyalty?smid= url-share Announcer: Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of "Ol' Jeez an' New Deez," a lighthearted interfaith interface that attempts to discern the ways, if any, in which those claiming to be disciples of our co-host - Jeez, not De...

Here are two letters from, a n d o n e letter about, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) , the great libertarian economic journalist a n d author. I n 2011, a frie n d from my university years added material, some of it from my emails to him, to the Wikipedia entry for Hazlitt . Those interested i n intellectual journalism may wish to read the Wikipedia entries for E n counter a n d politics magazines, which I expanded b y about 20x i n 2012 a n d 2013. For those latter efforts the judges of the two rounds of the U n z Historical Research Co mpetitio n awarded me, respectively, First a n d Seco n d Prize.

The Editor of this blog thanks The Editor of The Times Literary Supplement for publishing, in that paper's issue for May 8, 2020, his letter addressing topics that have him much engaged these last forty-five years . Hurrah for the CIA I have long been at one with the efforts of J.C. (NB, April 24) to rescue Encounter from its reputation among the bien-pensants as little more than a propaganda front for the CIA – the source, over its first decade, of secret funding, which came via private foundations and thence Encounter ’s publisher, the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). The revelation of that funding in 1966 led to the resignation of Encounter ’s founding co-editor Stephen Spender and his successor Frank Kermode, and a decline in prestige as rival start-ups such as the N ew York Review of Books absorbed its top-rank contributors. (George Steiner proved a notable exception, sticking with Encounter through to the late 1980s; indeed he had already alienated William Ph...

American politics 2020, as ever: watching 10 million ants, each the ant equivalent of a 98-pound man, each bravely Donning the mask of a mighty warrior while clad down below in adult diapers, pretending to engage in a life-or-death fight to the finish over the world's biggest pile of shit. To take it with anything other than the world's most deafening Bronx cheer, or total indifference, would be to sin against, according to taste, either g-d, or one's divine self - or both .