Alice O.
To the Readers of the INDEPENDENT STATESMAN: Western civilization is a tradition whose very nature, as a societal system designed to interfere with the common man as little as needed to fulfill the basic functions of the state, embodies an idea that we must continue to discuss, under the assumption that, since the uncontrollable lust […]
Being Artificially Intelligent
Writing is a profound activity if you reflect on it for long enough. Most of your website’s visitors are likely reading this on a screen, but these words, capturing their attention for a brief moment, started out as ink in my pen. So many of history’s most consequential characters had at one point found themselves […]
Letter to Benjamin Franklin
To the Editor: Your readers might be interested in a letter I recently wrote to the late Mr. Benjamin Franklin. He has of course been deceased for over 235 years now, but it was a formidable mental exercise that gave me the chance to connect with a man whose spirit continues to live on to this […]
Marcus Tullius No. 2
To the Editor of the INDEPENDENT STATESMAN: I’ve yet to feel a stronger sense of pride than when I recognize the fact that in the United States, each and every one of us is responsible for building a republic. Our Sacred Fire of Liberty is nothing more than a dim lantern carrying a wisp of […]
Marcus Tullius
To the Editor of the INDEPENDENT STATESMAN: Following a long and unfruitful search for a platform where I can express ideas that may go so far as reigniting the American tradition, I’ve developed a most harrowing hypothesis, and I’ve begun to inform my family and friends that I was born in the wrong century: forming […]