"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living." - Henri Poincaré

Everybody’s a Fascist Now!

John Kennedy delivering his State of the Union address, 1963, fasces displayed behind him.

by Kevin Alfred Strom

IF YOU WATCH FOX NEWS or read political blogs you probably have a headache from all the accusations of “fascism” bouncing back and forth from left to right and back again. “Obama’s a fascist!” “Rush is [...]

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." - Jeanne Moreau

Liberals Aren’t the Enemy

LIBERALS AREN’T THE ENEMY: Too many Euro-folk have a habit of describing those who oppose our survival as “liberals.” But some of the most ferocious opponents of our self-determination today call themselves “conservatives” or “fundamentalists.” And it’s a bad idea to alienate those who self-describe as liberals. Many of them are intelligent, highly-evolved White [...]

"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt." - Henrik Ibsen

My Political Education

Kevin Strom, 1956

by Kevin Alfred Strom (American Dissident Voices program of June 19, 1993)

I’M RECORDING this show on the week just before Father’s Day, and this year I’m a father for the first time. Looking at my baby boy and helping my wife care for him have made me think quite a [...]

"O, dark is the Valley, the Valley at even / The King's brow is clouded, the King's heart is black / His down-gazing eyes raise no glance to the heavens / Where angels are winging their homeward- bound track / In this hour is disaster, at brink of the grave / The Slave seems the Monarch, the Monarch the Slave." - Alice Macdonald Fleming

The Piranhas, the Birds, and the ‘Liberal’

by Kevin Alfred Strom

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY if a Liberal “social scientist” told you to jump into a pool filled with five hundred ravenous piranhas?

If you valued your life, you’d certainly refuse the invitation.

But what if the Liberal “social scientist” tried to convince you to go ahead and jump in, with the [...]