Tag Archives: Gresham’s Law

all in the family: fraternal disorders

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Dave

Our guys, the good guys are better than Assad’s guys, but only marginally. The bar is rather low. Like Gresham’s Law, the bad tends to drive out the good. The harder and purer the ideology, the fiercer the competition in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bashar assad, Gresham's Law, Jabhat al-Nusra, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moaz al-Khateeb, Philip Luther, Syrian Civil War, Syrian Uprising, William Lindsay Gresham | Leave a comment

muggeridge…punch for compass

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Dave

Its always fascinating how people can make surprising unexpected transformations in their lives that leave one reaching for a guide for the perplexed. A classic case was Malcolm Muggeridge the fiesty agnostic editor of Punch, the irreverent British magazine, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Christopher Hitchens, Evelyn Waugh, Gregory Wolfe, Gresham's Law, Hamish Hamilton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm Muggeridge, Peter Hitchens, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, William F. Buckley | Leave a comment

chanting around furnaces…

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Dave

… The Holocaust. here we have one lesson we can learn from Auschwitz. The Holocaust taught us what man can be. When man alone is permitted to decide how to live his life, the product may be either a saint … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Eichamann trial, Gideon Hausner, Gresham's Law, Hakya Grossman, Holocaust Memorial Day, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, margaret bourke-white, Rudolf Hoess Auschwitz-Birkenau, Thomas Merton Cisterian monk, Thomas Merton poem | Leave a comment

cain and not fable….

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Dave

Gresham’s Law: the bad tends to drive out the good… …The Holocaust and Auschwitz. The question continues to haunt us, and the answers still elude us. We will never be able to justify the Holocaust, to rationalize it, to explain … Continue reading →