The Golden Sextant
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
–Benjamin Franklin
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
— John Adams
Sound Money
Essential Feature
of a Republic
Rule of Law
and Equality before the Law
Education
Belmont Hill
Centennial
Recent Postings
One Future: School and Nation
A product of the American century, Belmont Hill was founded in the wake of the country’s emergence from the Great War as a major power. Despite almost failing as the Great Depression morphed into World War II, by war’s end the School had recovered, and in the war’s...
Distinguished Alumnus; Four Star Failure
Eighty percent of all Russian boys born in 1923 were dead by 1945, or so states a recent article. Although without citation, it’s a reasonable figure given the former Soviet Union’s total estimated losses of 27 million in the war with Nazi Germany. Nothing in the...