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This site contains CWNY’s works from 3/3/12 through 7/31/21, when CWNY ceased writing, as noted by his family in The Minstrel Sleeps. To download a pdf of all posts from this time period, go to About this site. (You may also download individual posts and pages, using a plugin we’ve made available.)
Please note that this site includes all posts from his previously de-platformed blog, which were completely restored as of 6/10/22. Should you wish to view only those restored posts, use the category link: Older posts (pre-April 2019).
For CWNY’s writing from 5/25/06 to 2/25/12, visit his older blog, still available here.
More content on this site is also available on the Remembrances page, which includes his final, albeit unfinished, Christmas story, and To His Readers (4/21/19), which he posted after his return from being deplatformed.
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Author Archives: cwny
Mystic Europe
But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften … Continue reading
The Strange Mutations of Liberaldom
But who comes here? My father, poorly led? World, world, O world!But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,Life would not yield to age. __________________________ In my mid-twenties, some forty years ago, I was very involved in what was … Continue reading
Pharisaical Hatred
What direction the French spirit of proselytism is likely to take, and in what order it is likely to prevail in the several parts of Europe, it is not easy to determine. The seeds are sown almost every where, chiefly … Continue reading
Which Is Given Unto Us
Men are rarely without some sympathy in the sufferings of others; but in the immense and diversified mass of human misery, which may be pitied, but cannot be relieved, in the gross, the mind must make a choice. Our sympathy … Continue reading
The United States of Baal
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it … Continue reading
The Liberal Swine Hate the Good Shepherd
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. And, behold, … Continue reading
The Lamentations of the European People
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! –Lamentations 1:1 ______________ The people … Continue reading
The Heart of Hearts
And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And … Continue reading
Orphans
Sleep, my child and peace attend theeAll through the night;Guardian angels God will send theeAll through the night.Soft, the drowsy hours are creeping,Hill and vale, in slumber sleeping,I my loving vigil keeping,All through the night. While the moon her watch … Continue reading
The Dualism at the Heart of Europe
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true … Continue reading