A Little Modern Greek
Anyone interested in Modern Greek will find resources rather slim pickings, The Pimsleur I and II–all they have done–will not get you much beyond: Hi what’s your name, how are you, a beer, pleas
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
The Nobody No Peace Prize
Donald Trump, if were more sure of his professed convictions, would be proud and happy to be passed over by conspiracy of dumb Swedes that passed him by for the Noble Peace Prize
Smile, When Your Heart is Breaking? Liar!
The essential hypocrisy and vulgarity of modern life is summed up by the leering grin all Americans and increasing numbers of Europeans affect whenever they meet someone or face a camera.
Autodidact: Shakespeare and Attic Tragedy, II
Besides, our ancestors, we should always bear in mind, were not really civilized people. They were descended from Goths and Saxons, Franks, Normans and Lombard. To the extent they were civilized, it was the result of the Christian Church and the study of the classics.
Wednesday’s Child: Flirting with Obesity
We exchanged some pleasantries, he patted my son on the head, and then he said, “You’ve gained some weight, haven’t you?”
Autodidact: Shakespeare and Greek Tragedy, I
This was a talk written for a Summer School in 2003 but perhaps not delivered. Lack of access to my old records prevent me from finding out.
Gavin Newsom’s Tyrannical Proposition 50
The bigger news is voters will decide Proposition 50 on Nov. 4. Given it affects the whole country, shouldn’t this be a national referendum?
Michael Hill: Bluegrass: The Music of the Mountain South
My paternal grandfather and I would listen to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights on WSM-AM radio out of Nashville in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. Besides standard country & western, we particularly liked Bluegrass.
Piers Paul Read: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and the Invasion of Ukraine
Will the Baltic states be next? Or was the invasion in his view a preemptive strike against an existential threat to the Russian nation? Is it possible that the present conflict in Ukraine might have been avoided if the chancelleries and intelligence services of the Western powers had made a more thorough study of their enemy
