Ted Cruz, US senator for the State of Texas, recently took time out to remind us of his literalist illiteracy with regard to the Bible, Christianity, theology and morality.
I have often imagined award ceremonies to pay tribute to what is most typically American. My first thought was a PT Barnum Award for the American who most contributed to the degradation of the American character.
For the average Scottish or English reader, Waverley must have been an exhilarating backwards trip through time and history, which enabled him to see both the feudal and tribal loyalties of Scots who adhered to the Stuart cause in much the same way their ancestors had flocked to the standards of Wallace and the Bruces.
To me it seemed painfully obvious that Trump and Netanyahu had worked out a plan
We are tentatively planning a small group trip to Greece of about 10 days for November 2025. The rough plan is to arrive and spend perhaps three nights in Athens and see the usual sights, then a bus will take us to Nauplion/Nafplio on the East coast of the Peloponnesus and from there visit Mycenae and Epidauros, and perhaps Tiryns and/or Nemea
After this tedious exposition, we shall get down to such questions as whether or not people who use cell phones in restaurants should suffer summary and immediate executions,
An uncharacteristic piece of optimism from the Southern Partisan in 1982, slightly edited and revised.
We are planing to film a series of book discussions on the theme, The Uses of Diversity, that is, on how people and societies respond to adversity.
This is a slightly edited and corrected verisio of a piece that appeared in The Southern Partisan in 1982.
