Yearly Archive: 2025
Wars, Just and Unjust
The current discussion of war against civilians, inspired by Anthony McCarthy’s excellent commentary on the Hiroshima celebrations, has encouraged me to post some passages from the last two chapters of my forthcoming sequel to The Reign of Love.
Modern Greek 2: Basic Expressions
Basic expressions with some notes on how similar (with some differences) MG is to Ancient.
Can Trump Pull off ‘The Art of the Deal’ for Ukraine?
I’ve been really critical of Trump lately. We need to keep the pressure on. He must stop being the War President and go back to being the Peace President he promised us, and whom we elected.
Wednesday’s Child: The Counterfeiters
I hasten to point out that any debt owed by the title of this post to André Gide’s Les Faux-monnayeurs ought to be discounted, apart from novel’s premise, self-evident enough, that some things in the world are original and some fake.
Value and Feeling
The animals’ responses to efforts of zoo-goers to attract their attention have become ‘meaningless’ due to the empty nature of the stimuli. Berger wrote his reflections in the 1970s long before the Information Age brought closer a state of affairs among humans resembling that of animals in the zoo.
The animals’ responses to efforts of zoo-goers to attract their attention have become ‘meaningless’ due to the empty nature of the stimuli. Berger wrote his reflections in the 1970s long before the Information Age brought closer a state of affairs among humans resembling that of animals in the zoo.
Podcast on Slang
The three Mot-sketeers talk about American slang–a badge of identity and the inversion of values.
Podcast: Less Than Five Minutes of Sarcasm
What the response to that infamous Sydney Sweeney commercial really means….
