Algis valiunas biography sample

Algis Valiunas is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributing editor to The New Atlantis, a journal about the ethical, political, and....

Algis Valiunas earned his Ph.D.

Algis Valiunas is a New Atlantis contributing editor and a fellow at the Ethics and Public.

Algis Valiunas is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributing editor to The New Atlantis, a journal about the ethical, political, and.

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In fine words of his own Algis Valiunas describes Churchill's rhetoric as he taught democratic societies truths about war that they do not easily appreciate but.

My Madness

Published January 1, 2023

First Things

By Algis Valiunas

My brother Peter was a wondrous boy, the youngest, brightest, and bounciest of three kids: IQ 165, boundless curiosity, confidence, and mental energy, bold in the best sense, and less than optimally protective of life and limb, fearing neither God nor man.

A school exercise he wrote when he was five or six demonstrated a religious sensibility well on its way to being fully formed: “Jesus fly over the stabel on Christmas morning. I hate chirch.”

Our home life became miserable, gradually, and then all at once—our father’s worsening alcoholism, our mother’s cold fury, their no-holds-barred divorce—and as soon as I could go away to college I got out of Chicagoland and didn’t look back for seven years.

Serious trouble began for Peter when he was nine and he and a friend were caught smoking marijuana in our front yard. By the time Peter was fourteen, he was flying into violent rages and had done time in the locked