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2025 Reading List

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2025 Reading List

The Midwestern Spy Reading List for 2024 is afoot, let the reading begin!

By D.S. Morgan 20 Dec 2023
A Not Unlikely Tale

Great Essays

A Not Unlikely Tale

What exactly happened when Man fell, we do not know; but if it is legitimate to guess, I offer the following picture - a "myth" in the Socratic sense, a not unlikely tale.

By D.S. Morgan 04 Apr 2023
Politics and the English Language

Great Essays

Politics and the English Language

The essay below was initially published by George Owell in Horizons, April 1946. In this essay, Orwell grapples with the effects of our decaying English language and the effects it has on political discourse. Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is

By D.S. Morgan 20 Mar 2023
A Silence Louder Than Words

Politics

A Silence Louder Than Words

There used to be a saying that the most dangerous place in the world was between Chuck Schumer and a CNN Camera, as it happens, I do not know whether the saying is true, but there are more desirable places to be—such as the bottom of a volcano or

By D.S. Morgan 20 Mar 2023

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2025 Reading List

2025 Reading List

The Midwestern Spy Reading List for 2024 is afoot, let the reading begin!

By D.S. Morgan 20 Dec 2023
A Not Unlikely Tale

A Not Unlikely Tale

What exactly happened when Man fell, we do not know; but if it is legitimate to guess, I offer the following picture - a "myth" in the Socratic sense, a not unlikely tale.

By D.S. Morgan 04 Apr 2023
A Silence Louder Than Words

A Silence Louder Than Words

There used to be a saying that the most dangerous place in the world was between Chuck Schumer and a CNN Camera, as it happens, I do not know whether the saying is true, but there are more desirable places to be—such as the bottom of a volcano or

By D.S. Morgan 20 Mar 2023
Lincoln’s Letter To Horace Greeley

Lincoln’s Letter To Horace Greeley

This letter was originally written by Abraham Lincoln addressed to one Horace Greeley who had harshly criticized him in the New York Tribune. Abraham had already had the Emancipation Proclamation Speech partly written and this letter shows Lincoln's foremost thought - Preserving The Union. Executive Manson, Washington, August

By D.S. Morgan 18 Mar 2023
The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

This essay by C.S. Lewis was originally published in 20th Century: An Australian Quarterly" as it could not be published in England at the time it was written - it was also published in God In The Dock. It discusses civil authority, criminality and other penological themes. In

By D.S. Morgan 18 Mar 2023

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Lincoln’s Letter To Horace Greeley

Lincoln’s Letter To Horace Greeley

This letter was originally written by Abraham Lincoln addressed to one Horace Greeley who had harshly criticized him in the New York Tribune. Abraham had already had the Emancipation Proclamation Speech partly written and this letter shows Lincoln's foremost thought - Preserving The Union. Executive Manson, Washington, August

By D.S. Morgan 18 Mar 2023
The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

This essay by C.S. Lewis was originally published in 20th Century: An Australian Quarterly" as it could not be published in England at the time it was written - it was also published in God In The Dock. It discusses civil authority, criminality and other penological themes. In

By D.S. Morgan 18 Mar 2023
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