Charles van Heck's Woodhull Journal

March 2025

  • ART AND THE LET GO POINT

    There is a strangeness to the mornings. This is partly due to my inability to adjust to the time change these past few weeks. But there is more to the peculiarity. Spring’s arrival. The transition from winter, which was mild… Continue reading

  • Why Civil Resistance Works

    The other day I received permission from Canada Resist to republish this from their blog on Substack. There are lessons to learn from history. The question is whether or not we are willing to learn and apply those in this… Continue reading

  • SKATING ON A RAZOR’S EDGE

    This morning, I awoke feeling as if I were skating on a razor’s edge to the Rolling Stone’s “Sympathy for the Devil.” I distinctly recall one of the last conversations with my father. This took place on an April afternoon… Continue reading

  • RANDOM THOUGHTS ON FRIENDSHIP: A REFLECTION IN A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY

    A friend recently suggested to my wife that I post blogs regularly or risk losing readership. His advice is sound. Three blogs have been researched and roughly drafted. My thoughts, however, have been with mi amiga de combate. We have… Continue reading

  • PURIM: ESTHER IN TRUMPLAND

    Purim is a holiday of joy and remembrance. There is a carnival spirit to the holiday celebration of the triumph of Mordecai and Esther in thwarting King Ahasuerus’s advisor Haman’s scheme to exterminate all the Jews in the Persian empire.… Continue reading

  • The Unitary Executive Theory

    Part II: The President, the Ghost of Justice Scalia and the Ghostbusters    Have you ever thought about the word all? This simple word, used either as a noun or an adverb, when used for emphasis, is easily taken for… Continue reading

  • CANADA AND DONALD TRUMP’S UNJUSTIFIED TARIFFS

    “As President John F. Kennedy said many years ago, “geography has made us neighbours, history has made us friends, economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies.” That rang true for many decades prior to President Kennedy’s… Continue reading

  • THE FOX AND CHANGE: A FABLE

    “Things are going to change around here since they moved in,” Andy Jost said. “You saw him?” Fred Haisch asked. Andy nodded. Fred and Andy are my neighbors. Years ago when I first moved to Evoraburg, they and Andy’s three… Continue reading