Tag: Covid

Get the First Principles Right…and All Else will Flow Clearly

By Charlie Johnston I have always been a big believer in what I call “First Things,” foundational principles which you then use as your interpretive template on all extrapolations. (Imagine my delight when, in 1990, the late Fr. Richard Neuhaus founded First Things Magazine – a profoundly orthodox Judeo-Christian publication that often has profound intellectual […]

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Navigating Choppy Waters

By Charlie Johnston I have Covid. Very similar to the nasty variant that nearly killed me four years ago. Not to worry, I am on day six of what took three months four years ago – and am beginning the mop-up stage of decisively banishing it. The thing that made me always think that Covid […]

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A Future and a Hope

By Charlie Johnston Waukegan, Illinois – On December 23, 2020, I wrote here that I thought the Covid Shots were likely to become the greatest medical disaster in modern history. My essay, “Embers in the Wind” is a fascinating read nearly five years later. In the first two paragraphs I vastly underestimated people’s tolerance for […]

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A Path to Wisdom

By Charlie Johnston I am primarily an autodidact, someone who is self-taught. I have some formal training, primarily in history and economics, but in most everything else my work is entirely the result of my own constant study since nearly the time I began to read. The virtue of an autodidact is that he often […]

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