RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I am not familiar with optimization theory directly — and do not have the tech math background to follow it in detail — but I am grasping enough from your indications to be able to make a…
Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. The winter of 1968-69 was the first time I experienced a federal…
Taken individually and even in groups, these are sick personalities — certainly mentally, probably physically — itching for gigs. Taken as a national phenomenon, this is a firestorm of intolerance racing across the land, devouring young and old, rich and poor, sick and well, families high and low, men, women, and children. We ask, Why?…
Peter Putnam I was Peter’s student at The Union Theological Seminary, NYC, during the late 1960s. For me, he was life-changing. Shaking and changing. Probably the best way to tell you about Peter is from this website, which is recent, no doubt by a student or someone who grasps his importance. Pay special attention to…
As is the feeling, So is the result. Our leadership classes got inverted decades ago. Several reasons that happened, but the central one is that our true leadership classes lost self-confidence after uncritically imbibing leftist/progressive utopian drivel. Into the vacuum created by their abdication of responsibility flowed bumptious ruffians, parvenues, largely female, whose manners and…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole Leader Development should include reading in classical theological literature and literature influenced by classical theology. Really, leaders per se cannot develop properly, which is to say, they cannot grow careers that bear sweet fruits, without the benefit of this nourishment. In April of 2001, when our…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT With a clarifying caveat here and there, that list of sins looks to me like a list of virtues. To paraphrase a Reynolds trope: when darks cease breaking into countries and systems created…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Early in the movie The Hunt For Red October, Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) summons Analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) to a meeting chaired by Dr. Jeffrey Pelt (Richard Jordan)…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (1181-1226) and Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) are true Italian Masters of the Human Art. And they are on the same page, so to speak. The Man of God…
Chaitanya Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Angelo M. Codevilla is justly esteemed a political philosopher of the first water, of the highest translucence. I consider him the peer-successor of his countryman (of birth) Niccolò Machiavelli. Political philosophy (statecraft) always has been…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things You…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Francis’ plane interview is 100% pastoral and legal, 0% theological. Nothing apposite the need in re the latter. He evinces a small background intellectually, not comfortable in the howling winds of statecraft, which…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The ever-lively Legal Insurrection induced a knock-around today on the subject of electioneering. Following upon a jejune, formulaic, petulant and sophomoric post that actually contains a valid point hidden within its unrefined expression, several comments in an altogether sparkling discussion — to include a…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The phenomenon of non-discussion discussion has long intrigued one. How, one asks, does one describe the phenomenology of the phenomenon? The phenomenon is well-known. X says something to Y, statement or query, and Y responds with a non sequitur, a moral equivalence,…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In 1972 an invitation was given by Dr. Mary Catherine “Cat” Bateson to attend a conference sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation at their property Burg Wartenstein in Austria. The subject was…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Looters want stability. Builders want opportunity. Theobald and Bateson used to point out that the viability of a system is proportional to the steady state of its internal differentials. Both employed…
