Pathetic Conservatives

Pearl Davis smacked around tradcon Michael Knowles recently, brilliantly illustrating all the things that Dalrock explained 10 years ago: tl;dr Around here, we have old barns that sometimes don’t make it through the winter. This is, on one hand, a tragic loss of tradition and beauty. But, if you went into that barn, in theContinue reading “Pathetic Conservatives”

Patriarchy > Chivalry

Are we ready to just call it Patriarchy? Anthropologists say that they can’t find any evidence of any Matriarchal society, at any time or place, among primitives, and certainly not among advanced civilizations. We only have Strong Patriarchy, or Weak Patriarchy. Given what we have seen, from experiments like Bear Grylls The Island, or fromContinue reading “Patriarchy > Chivalry”

The Amazing Queen Victoria

Of all of Britain’s monarchs, by their track record — the success of their countries during their reign — we might have to give the highest honors to Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 to 1901. This was a time when British Kings really did have a lot of power, although over time this diminished.Continue reading “The Amazing Queen Victoria”