Podcast: The Victorian Age
The Victorian Age, though often depicted rigidly conservative and conventional, was actually a period of great cultural ferment, both revolution and counter-revolution
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The Trumpery President
Virtually everything I read in the gutter press (Is there anything else?) is fabricated. Fake New is the only news, especially when it comes from the White House.
Rainbow Stew
Merle Haggard was anything but a political thinker—or even a particularly good songwriter—but, with the exception of one unfortunate line—his 1981 hit song “Rainbow Stew” summed up the common wisdom of disgruntled Americans.
Homer for Modern Man
With the threat, looming over our heads, that a film version of the Odyssey is soon to be released
Escape From Alcatraz
In 1962, Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz prison. In 1979, Don Siegel made a movie about this event starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, and Fred Ward
In 1962, Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz prison. In 1979, Don Siegel made a movie about this event starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, and Fred Ward
Acting Naturally: The Biggest Fools That Ever Hit the Big Time, Week I
Here is your chance to nominate and vote for the Biggest Big-Time Fools of the Week
Plain Talk
The demonstrations, in Minneapolis and other cities, against the enforcement of US immigration law are a vivid illustration of what the American people, in their childish pursuit of what they imagine to be human right, have become.
Pursuing Happiness, I: Misery and Gin
In the old dormitory bull sessions, if the subject of happiness came up, someone would be sure to use the old trope of the contented cow in the pasture. The cow certainly experienced something like pleasure, but could a rational human being agree with the cow?
The Nato Empire in 1999
On June 5, 1999 in Washington, D.C. I spoke at a demonstration, near the Vietnam War memorial, of many thousands of people protesting President Clinton’s decision to bomb Serbia.
