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Ron Baron
May 29, 202123 min read
What Humpty Dumpty Can Teach us About Climate Alarmism
How 'Settled' science nearly succeeded in destroying mother nature's most perfect food. "I have high cholesterol," my mother sighed over...
Ron Baron
Apr 24, 202110 min read
The Year is 2039- Where's the Beef?
In my last email, I hinted at sharing a novel I'm writing. It's not uncommon today to 'serialize' one's writing and offer it over...
Ron Baron
Apr 22, 20212 min read
Rule of Mob
With the word 'justice' in nearly every paragraph, its meaning, at least in an authoritative dictionary sense, appears under constant...
Ron Baron
Apr 11, 20214 min read
Memories From a Red Ford Station Wagon
My life started as a snot-nosed kid with curly blond hair riding unbelted in the back seat of my parent's red 1955 Ford station wagon. ...
Ron Baron
Mar 4, 20214 min read
First Shall Be Last, and the Last Shall be First
There are millions of us boomers. Unlike newborns who are mostly sleeping, smooth, healthy, and nary a care in the world, we suffer from...
Ron Baron
Feb 25, 20211 min read
The Elect: Woke Theology
It must have become uncomfortable. Finally, she blurted, "It's what I believe and that's all I'm going to say!" She may have grown...
Ron Baron
Feb 23, 20211 min read
The History of Forced Apologies
As children, we all remember when a sibling or friend demanded we apologize for a misdeed. If not, off to mother they waddle. Apologize...
Ron Baron
Feb 18, 20214 min read
The Tolerant Eyes of Helen Keller
It was Shakespeare who wrote, “The eyes are the window to your soul.” His use of ‘soul’ suggests a spiritual man. Historians mostly...
Ron Baron
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Boomers Taken to the Wood Shed
My notion that the generation of my grandparents, the 'greatest generation' somehow rubbed off making the 'boomer generation' nearly as...
Ron Baron
Feb 10, 20211 min read
The Virtues Necessary for Progress
It is humility, tolerance, and forbearance that Charles C. W. Cooke believes necessary to live in partisan harmony. These virtues, he...
Ron Baron
Feb 7, 20211 min read
Classics Cancelled: Too White
There is a growing movement in the academy, where term-papers littered with multi-syllabled words such as diversity and inclusion prove...
Ron Baron
Feb 4, 20215 min read
Nosophobia on the Front Porch
There is an attractive young family that lives nearby. If posed standing proudly on the porch of their modest mid-century two-story, they...
Ron Baron
Jan 31, 20211 min read
Progressive Survivor, Alexander Solzhenitsyn Tried to Warn Us
English professor, author, and history buff, Louis Markos offers us his review of 'Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in...
Ron Baron
Jan 20, 20211 min read
Vengeance: Time to Reread Illiad
Hector, born to a king and queen, a prince, and Troy's greatest warrior, is the protagonist of one of history's greatest stories- Homer's...
Ron Baron
Jan 18, 20211 min read
Time to Dust Off the Dystopian Books on our Shelves
Theodore Dalrymple is a gifted essayist. Well-traveled and possessing a piercing critical eye, he observes the rare, the obscure, the...
Ron Baron
Jan 14, 20215 min read
The World My Granddaughters Inherit
I had just become a young man from being a young boy when I attempted to raise my own young boys. Much too young, I think back. I now...
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Jan 11, 20212 min read
2020 May Be Remembered as Tranquil
With 2020 in the rearview mirror, we still see the images of demon Viddy with his colorful tentacles lurking and leaping. We also see...
Ron Baron
Jan 8, 20211 min read
When the Elites Flee
Academic Micheal Lind writes of the destruction of the American two party system. It's crumbling under the heat of red-hot rhetoric and...
Ron Baron
Jan 4, 20211 min read
Toppling Our Past
Academic historian and culture observer, Victor Davis Hanson, penned this essay lamenting the attack on our historical icons including...
Best of Web
Jan 2, 20211 min read
Can We Believe?
Author and YouTube contributor, Andrew Klavan, penned a thought-provoking essay on those who 'preach' the value and contribution of a...
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