Enjoying the view from Limbo
Bad Bunny was the performer at the Super Bowl half-time show. I never heard of Bad Bunny before this month. I understand he sings in Spanish. (I cannot verify whether “sings” is strictly the correct verb here, though I suspect not, based on the photos of Mr. Bunny that I have seen; and I surely will not attempt to verify it by listening...
Anyone who knows me knows that I am often susceptible to the charge of being excessively disdainful or dismissive of most things contemporary, at least in the soul-defining realms of ideas, art, and politics. I freely admit to being guilty of such an excess on occasion, or even on most occasions. Having granted this, however, I must aver that I come by my...
A good warrior is a person who is willing to obey orders or carry out an assigned duty for his society, even to the point of death if necessary. A good man, by contrast, is a person who is willing to disobey orders or defy an assigned duty of his society, even to the point of death if necessary. From this it follows...
America Descending / Liberty's Labors Lost
by Daren Jonescu · Published February 8, 2026 · Last modified February 9, 2026
Donald Trump is trying to execute in the 2026 midterm elections the same strategy he used in the 2020 presidential election: Start telling people months ahead of the election that the Democrats are planning massive voter fraud, though without providing any evidence to support this; on election night, stand up and declare that the election fraud he predicted has really happened, though without...
It is very true that videos can lie. It is equally true that government officials can lie. But when several videos shot independently by several different people from several different angles present one consistent picture, while several government officials mouth one script written or approved by one government official, then we are being asked whether we are more inclined to believe several different...
Do you remember back in the days before 2016, when tens of millions of Americans, Republican Party voters, defended the right to bear arms, against all critics, arguing that the real reason for the Second Amendment had nothing to do with hunting or recreational shooting, but was all about the God-given right of a free people to arm themselves against a potentially tyrannical...
Fact vs. Fiction.– No one thinks or invents anything important due to the influence of alcohol or other drugs. But everyone who feels an immoderate attachment to a drug of choice has a vested interest in telling himself that these artificial intoxicants enhance thought and inventiveness. And every…
I was recently asked, by a student seeking to understand the full conditions and practical implications of the philosophic life, a question which has, in one form or another, probably occurred to, or rather preoccupied, the mind of every person attracted to philosophy in a serious way from the sixth century B.C. to the present. I paraphrase her question closely: “Let’s suppose everyone...
To everyone who has ever accused me personally, or any other critic of Donald Trump for that matter, of suffering from the non-existent ailment (but all-time great example of psychological projection), “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” I offer the following: Dear Jonas, Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an...
Ideas and Reflections / Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published January 20, 2026
Ted Cruz, who back in the latter days of 2016 willingly defined himself for all time as the single most spineless and snivelling anti-man in American politics, now seeks to reassert that title against increasingly aggressive competition, by stating, in support of his master’s latest evidence of mental deterioration, that it is “overwhelmingly” in America’s “national interest” to acquire Greenland. As though concepts...
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