In the first chapter of his novel Shiloh, Shelby Foote has Lieutenant Palmer Metcalfe of New Orleans say the following about his thoughts while falling asleep on the eve of battle: I had thought I wouldnt sleep. It seemed I ought to make some sort of reckoning, to...
Civil War
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and the Paradox of Politics
A couple of weeks ago, President Biden announced that he was at last going to put the massive and seemingly unlimited powers of the federal bureaucracy to work in a direct assault on vaccine hesitancy, essentially mandating that all workers at companies of over 100...