Paris has long been the most visited city in Europe, but most of it is not visited. Why not?
Read MoreShould we begin each morning like this? Yes, we should. Fat heads in the past, clear minds ahead…
Read MoreClinton’s ‘New Democrats’ were eager to partner up with the private sector to draft the first comprehensive set of internet policies…
Read MoreOne thing I’ve noticed is that when you tell these so-called LIBERALS who are actually FASCIST HYPOCRITES that you happen to support our CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED right to bear arms…
Read MoreIt is both impossible to ignore and easy to forget that New York is mostly an archipelago of islands and that its waterfront is the most extensive of any city in the United States…
Read MoreThrough the plague year, nature has been the only permitted escape: the parks, the hikes…
Read MoreFor Nancy, democracy is not a given form of government, with a fixed meaning, but a term whose meaning is in contestation…
Read MoreWith these impedimenta carefully corded up in a strong deal box I felt myself equal to any photographic emergency…
Read MoreAll life seems to be like wine, in that one always wants more; but unlike wine, in that one cannot quit it. Writing in particular seems to be a lot like wine. It’s good, it’s bad…
Read MoreJohn le Carré became a diligent student of nineteenth-century German literature. He was recruited by the British Secret Intelligence Service while at Oxford…
Read MoreThe biggest delight of my Conan Doyle sleuthing may well be a false clue, even if the facts are not in doubt…
Read MoreYour literature amounts to nothing now Having picked up all of romanticism’s errors, Its writings all reveal the face of Nature, Poor and decrepit, surrounded by great horrors…
Read MoreAnthropology is fundamentally an anarchist project, as it zeroes in on levels of social reality where the state, even when it exists, is not the most salient factor in accounting for why human beings do what they do…
Read MoreTo experience a version of the cool exhilaration of a mid-twentieth-century American jazz night, one might start by listening to an iconic Miles Davis recording…
Read MoreWine growers, merchants and industrialists worked feverishly to rehabilitate the beverage’s downtrodden reputation…
Read MoreWe find ourselves in New Hampshire, or Mexico, driving about, or at home, and writing and thinking ahead…
Read MoreWho knew that William Bankes was an amateur of Thomas Love Peacock! Perhaps I should have…
Read MoreI received my notice of eviction last week but have been unable to seriously entertain thinking about it or addressing it. I suppose it was not a surprise…
Read MoreLet the bottle pass freely, don’t shirk it nor spare it, For a heeltap! a heeltap! I never could bear it!
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