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Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision
October 30, 2021I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many...
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A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: A World to Fear and Loathe More
October 29, 2021Three books changed my life. George Orwell’s 1984, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of...
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Sudden Onset
October 29, 2021From that first tingling in bed to calling 911 was an hour and a half. Sudden...
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Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
October 28, 2021O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
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Stanley Kubrick: The Legacy of a Cinematic Legend
October 28, 2021Many continue to see the director’s films as cold and cynical, as being somehow stripped of...
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The Life of R.K. Narayan
October 27, 2021R.K. Narayan Narayan’s fiction rarely addresses political issues or high philosophy. He writes with grace and...
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Goethe and Tagore – Unexpected Interests
October 25, 2021Goethe and Tagore, separated by time and contexts, but joined in their great felicity over the...
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A Toast to Tristan Egolf
October 25, 2021He would furiously lead anti-war marches weekly on our courthouse steps. He improvised chants and picket...
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Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
October 24, 2021The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...
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Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
October 24, 2021Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
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