by rosswcalvin | Sep 11, 2021 | Aesthetics, Architecture
There was a joke on the Soviets: as the West invented the personal computer, the USSR reached its greatest cement production in history. China now produces more cement than the rest of the world combined. We are left with the sense that our modern brand of...
by rosswcalvin | Aug 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Obama’s inauguration was transformative. Bolivarian Marxists climbing the telephone poles, weeping in the streets for the forthcoming “Si se Puede” handouts. This was Peak America, or rather the peak of the corporate United States as a global force for good. American...
by rosswcalvin | Aug 17, 2021 | Bitcoin, Geopolitics, Global Macro, Uncategorized
10 Years I’m the first to contest that no biography is needed for the likes of me. But perhaps I can be useful as a kind of example. For almost ten years I plastered my face to the charts. Most of my 30’s and before. I didn’t get married. ‘How do I restore integrity?’...
by rosswcalvin | Apr 4, 2021 | Aesthetics
“No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it again. this commandment I have received from my Father.” -John 10:18 The cheerful, immediate relationship of a Sunday afternoon in April,...
by rosswcalvin | Mar 20, 2021 | Aesthetics, Poetry
Poetry orders the soul. The deliberate meter of language husbands something transcendent within us that makes us remember we belong. Poetry educates us about the beauty of the world. While in one hand opening the daily existence to the possibility of an expansiveness...
