Hector kills Patroclus who is wearing Achilles’ armor. Hector takes the armor as a spoil. Thetis, Achilles’ mother, pleads with Hephaestus to make her son new armor worthy of him to wear when he returns to battle. The smithy god agrees and Homer spends many lines describing the newly forged armor. Each piece is gravenContinue reading “Crime and Natural Rights”
Tag Archives: Supreme Court
Social Conservatism and Classical Liberalism
“Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it.” So Aeneas is admonished as he enters Dis with the Golden Bough. Ludwig Von Mises adopted this phrase as his motto. It frames the conversational spirit of the post: a warning of the perilous danger of Leviathan; its seductive assurances that itContinue reading “Social Conservatism and Classical Liberalism”
Protective Arts 