The Holiday- the one yesterday that commemorates the ouster of the British King from these shores- enabled abolitionists to outlaw the abominable institution that still scars our world. It took a while- the better part of a century and the end or undoing of nearly a million lives to do it. Every family was affected […]

(The Gnome at lower left signifies his allegiance in Arlington with pride). The current malaise abroad in the land is sort of astonishing. You haven’t even heard the term “malaise” in a couple decades. We know it from former President Jimmy Carter’s speech in 1979, the year I was living on an old ship in […]

It is a holiday weekend. Marlow started us off this morning with an account of train travel. Many of us ride something like the rails in our clustered cities. “Light rail,” they tell us, a replacement for the old heavy-gauge universal track that opened our land before the arrival of the automobile and the superhighway. […]

Socotra House LLC relies on an extensive network of alert readers to report on the disparate reports from around the globe. China insiders claimed the top Counterintellignce officer in the PRC was the “Source” identified by the Defense Intelligence Agency as an authority on the origin of the COVID virus. His name- “Dong Jingwei-” was […]

Ah, a Wednesday in Virginia’s gentle Piedmont! The skies are mostly clear, and the Lady in Red assures us we will only scrape the bottom of triple-digit temperatures later. Nice robust humidity. Summer. There is other stuff going on, of course. We are awash in it, like the cash flooding out of the Treasury. Did […]