Category: Access

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All Paid Subscribers / Feature / Seiler

25 Apr, 2023

Establishment Looking for Ukraine Exit

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Foreign Affairs is the most prestigious policy magazine in the world. It’s published by the Council on Foreign Relations, which conspiracy mongers say controls the world. It doesn’t, although its members are powerful and influential. As to Foreign Affairs itself, I like to say it’s “the Establishment talking to itself.” I used to have a subscription, but gave it up because they doubled the price as the quality of writing declined. But I’m still on their email list, so I get their list of articles, with short synopses. Some of those articles are free.

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Wednesday's Child

19 Apr, 2023

Wednesday’s Child: Quiche Eaters Anonymous

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My bright college years in America were roughly the epoch of Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche.  I never read the book, whose title was on the lips of my contemporaries as a kind of mantra of masculinity. But it wasn’t as though they sensed what the future held.  The magic, I reckon, lay simply in the innate ridiculousness of the word “quiche,” so swishy, hissy, and, as one might reflect now, forty years later, tranny.  Just say the silly word and straightaway you’re in the audience of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

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All Paid Subscribers / Fleming

17 Apr, 2023

The Marshal’s Own Case

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The Marshal’s Own Case is the seventh of Magdalen’s mystery novels featuring  Marshall Salvatore Guarnaccia.  Jack Trotter, who introduced me to Nabb some years ago, has been invited to write some things on several of the other novels, but let us leap ahead to consider this, the strangest and least liked of her books.