The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse
December 20, 2025Was P.G.Wodehouse, the legendary master of farce, party to Nazi propaganda during World War II? This...
A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: A World to Fear and Loathe More
December 20, 2025Three books changed my life. George Orwell’s 1984, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of...
A Long Day’s Day with James Dickey
December 19, 2025“Ah yes,” he whispered to me, ”I spent one helluva long night wrassling all over the...
Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision
December 19, 2025I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many...
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
December 19, 2025The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
Roses & Bulbul Birds
December 19, 2025What’s intriguing about the dreadful psychology of Muslim, particularly Shiite [read Hizbollah] fundamentalism, is that aspect...
Sudden Onset
December 19, 2025From that first tingling in bed to calling 911 was an hour and a half. Sudden...
Oil and Africa
December 18, 2025[Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Adam Robert’s new book The Wonga Coup: Guns,...
Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
December 17, 2025O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
Stanley Kubrick: The Legacy of a Cinematic Legend
December 17, 2025Many continue to see the director’s films as cold and cynical, as being somehow stripped of...




