Julia Caesar

It is the Free Market economy alone that democratized leisure with the help of the 'invisible hand,' more likely, than the raised Fist: woodbine89.wixsite.com/schola/post/mu…

@TheRobertBshow The first economics from ´οικια (house, household) οικονομία- (economy) and essentially the family, as the first State

Aristotle understood the household as the foundation of civilization. Not the individual. Not the state. The family as a productive unit. Your adult children contributing to the family economy isn't a step backward. It's the recovery of something ancient, wise, and deeply human.

@websterkaroon A Covenant of Peace

Rainbow over Tehran for the first day of spring

John Cleese’s sense of humor is eternal

@rabbriansamuel you are the first fruits of God’s Creation! Abraham believed and it was credited to him as righteousness

I'm Jewish. After careful study of the scriptures, I am convinced that Jesus is the Messiah, son of the living God.

@RossKempsell some great people get mummified, others are memefied

Sometimes I still watch this for no reason at all

There is no substitute for the slow reading : “that is, slowly, profoundly, attentively, prudently, with inner thoughts, with the mental doors ajar, with delicate fingers and eyes." Friedrich Nietzsche

@SoledadFrancis even Tocqueville was impressed by everyday Americans who understood Civics in the 1830’s

Because they stopped teaching Civics in school, so many grown adults have zero idea how society actually works. And it has us all down bad!

@SoledadFrancis to destroy a culture, a Nation "To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is leave them unread for a few generations”. (Hutchins, Adler, 1952)

Children don't read because their parents don't read. We'll soon be led by an entire generation that has never cracked open a book. Not a single book in the home. This frightens me more than the idea of nuclear threat or a foreign power attacking us. We're imploding from within.

𝗩𝗗𝗛: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡. Victor Davis Hanson has spent fifty years studying how wars end. When he says the tide is turning, it's worth listening to why. His argument isn't based on what the Pentagon is saying. It's based on how everyone else is behaving. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀. VDH's rule: Europeans never agree to go anywhere near a conflict unless they think the winning side has already been determined. They didn't help in the early days. Now they're starting to move. That movement is not idealism. It's a calculation. They've looked at the battlefield and decided which way this ends. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗹𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. The Saudis, the Emiratis, the Qataris — these governments have survived for generations by reading the regional climate with precision. When they expel Iranian military attachés, when they intercept Iranian missiles over their own capitals and say nothing about American strikes, when the UAE reaffirms its $1.4 trillion investment commitment to the United States mid-war — they are not making ideological statements. They are placing bets. And they are betting on the United States. 𝗔𝗹 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗮. This is the one that should stop you cold. Al Jazeera — the Qatari state media network, historically critical of American military action, the network Tucker Carlson and the anti-war right love to cite against Israel — is now calling the U.S. bombing campaign brilliant and effective, and saying it has been underestimated. When the media outlet of a nation that hosts both the largest American air base in the Middle East and a Hamas political office starts praising American military effectiveness, the message is unmistakable: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹. A-10 Warthogs and Apache helicopter gunships are now flying strike missions in Iranian airspace at will. VDH's point: you only deploy those aircraft when there is effectively no air defense left to threaten them. They are slow, low-flying, close-support platforms. Their presence confirms what the Pentagon has been claiming — Iran has no meaningful air defense remaining. Iran's strategy now is rope-a-dope. Run out the clock. Wait for American public opinion to shift. Hope the midterms create political pressure on Trump to stop. It is the only play they have left. VDH's conclusion: if Trump sees it through — and he believes he will — the regime falls. Not in years. 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻. 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝘆. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮.

@ferfedrawings68 Microns are a man’s best friend- excellent work!

Acabo de saber que he perdido otro cliente que ha preferido recurrir a la IA (no doy más detalles). Cada vez que subo imágenes como esta a las redes de mi proceso de trabajo me siento como un viejo artesano a punto de desaparecer, como un calafate o un tonelero...

@DAKKADAKKA1 Duchamps did this with his Urinal

It’s a humiliation ritual. To show how gullible one can be. Literally the peak of mountain. Making someone pay thousands for something worth less than a penny.

@jaume_diadoc Worth the ἆθλον

El grec clàssic és la llengua més difícil amb què he topat mai (i he estudiat llatí, alemany, francès i grec modern entre d'altres). Aprendre les seves declinacions irregulars, els seus 12 infinitius i 36 participis per verb (no és broma) és una magistral lliçó de rigor i esforç.

@JeremyTate41 I submit to you that a Pinto is now a Classic Car...due to old age🤣

The main objection I hear to classical education is that it is elitist. It is a valid objection because it is just better, and a BMW is better than a Pinto, sorry if that is offensive. If you object to things because they are better you are still living in the matrix.

Melville introduced himself next-taught me that words are vessels in a vast & unbridled sea lapping up against the corpus of an infamous whale: the formidable Western Canon.A master of imagery, impressed upon me, words like a generous palette knife against a linseed-oiled canvas.

So I end up buying all the books I take out from the Library

@EricLDaugh The perfect phone call

🚨 BREAKING: After pressure from President Trump, six American allies just PLEDGED SUPPORT to secure the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes "That's COUNTER to what they previously said!" 🔥 They are: Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands KEEP PUSHING, 47! No free rides!

@JebraFaushay This is the equivalent to Duchamps Fountain (1917) Urinal Statement

This luxury bag shop in Turkey demonstrates the beauty of a $1790 Balenciaga pouch. It comes in yellow, is quite versatile, and I believe it’s water proof. I’d be willing to pay ten cents for it, what about you?

@charlesmurray And because it is called the Great Conversation and not the impactful conversation

Perhaps because "impactful" is a lexical abomination?

@MTClassical This is so Chestertonian in spirit! I got a good laugh

I love reading and writing at car repair shops. I have no idea what they are doing to my car; they usually don't know why I'm doing what I'm doing. I need them, but they don't need my paper on Moby-Dick. We get to hold each other in simultaneous contempt and admiration.