James Michener published a slim volume in 1970, The Quality of Life. He wrote, however, of matters that affected people in general, America specifically, and all of us according to groups or group identities, or as Eric Hoffer characterized us: the masses. Michener is a splendid novelist and one of my all-time favorites. In TheContinueContinue reading “Quality of Life”
Author Archives: David A. Woodbury
What I Learned in Alaska
Reprint: what a gay, Muslim, Pakistani-American immigrant learned traveling to rural Alaska the week before the 2016 election.
Why Trump Won (2016)
Sorry, uncovering America’s racist underbelly wasn’t why Trump won Jake Novak | @jakejakeny Published 1:38 PM ET Wed, 9 Nov 2016 Updated 8:00 AM ET Thu, 10 Nov 2016 Millions of Americans, especially those in the Washington establishment, woke up on Wednesday feeling shocked and hurt by the surprise election of Donald Trump to theContinueContinue reading “Why Trump Won (2016)”
How to Eviscerate the Second Amendment
Ersatz-President Biden’s handlers will provide him with the text for many executive orders, on the premise that these orders will serve to implement existing law, or to restore practices, desirable to totalitarians, that were suspended by President Trump…
Four Little Words
It’s time Americans remembered the miracles possible within that blessing called society and the limitations of an institution based on nothing more than consolidated brute force…
Your Day in Court
“If it weren’t for lawyers, dear boy, we wouldn’t need lawyers.” possibly from the movie “A Murder of Crows” (1998) Many Americans with ordinary legal disputes never get the trial they thought they were guaranteed by the Constitution. I’m just going to put this link here and let you read the excellent article that itContinueContinue reading “Your Day in Court”
It’s My Fault
If you are discouraged by the apparent choices in the general election this November — Donald Trump versus an equally unappealing Joe Biden, Senator Necktie versus some vitriolic challenger who can’t find Peru or Poland on a map, or if a House of Representatives (not to mention a state legislature) full of posturing lawyers horrifiesContinueContinue reading “It’s My Fault”
Henry George
An email message from Poland, received February 4, spurred some research on my part. My correspondent, Dr. Olgierd Górecki, a faculty member at the University of Łódź, Departament of Law and Administration, had discovered this site dedicated to A. J. Nock and was writing to ask for help in locating a copy of Nock’s book-lengthContinueContinue reading “Henry George”
Albert Jay Nock’s Job
In other words, if your goal is to reform the world to your liking, you are slated for failure from the outset. For that task is impossible — as well as unnecessary. But if your goal is to reform yourself, and incidentally present the truth as you know it to others, then you cannot fail…
Single-payer Medical Insurance — The Only Way
I suspect that a single-payer medical insurance system could work. I suspect, however, that it will be a Pigrolet version of government-run medical insurance that will be thrust upon us in the not-too-distant future. I suspect, I’m sad to say, that it will be a fiscal and practical failure of colossal and damaging proportions, preciselyContinueContinue reading “Single-payer Medical Insurance — The Only Way”
Albert Jay Nock 