Here is a wonderful poster offered by Despair.com, reproduced. (reproduced either with Depair.com’s permission with a hyperlink so you may, as have I, and as should you, purchase one or, if Parcbench’s editors found themselves, once again, too overworked or indolent to bother seeking permission, reproduced under a reasonably plausible claim of “fair use.”) “Government”…

“Beauty is difficult, Yeats” said Aubrey Beardsley when Yeats asked why he drew horrors or at least not Burne-Jones and Beardsley knew he was dying and had to make his hit quickly Hence no more B-J in his product. So very difficult, Yeats, beauty so difficult. So, famously, wrote Ezra Pound in Canto LXXX, recounting…

Postmodernism is a slightly scary word, mostly used by uber-Liberals to confound Conservatives.  That said, postmodernism is not well understood by most Liberals (even uber ones) and is a respectable school of thought profoundly subversive to Liberalism — at least to the “fundamentalist Liberalism” that today is the reigning school of elite thought today. The…