We all live in a kind of delirium: as if we have control of our lives, while we know damn well something is coming. W…
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Election Special: To Hell With Civility by Rob Bokkon
I’m so tired of re-writing this article. The drafts kept piling up and piling up and piling up, one after the other. …
Blood Money: C.E. Morgan’s ‘The Sport of Kings’
On May 17, 1875, under blue skies and wearing the flapping green-and-orange silks of his legendary employer J.P. McGr…
Such Modest Proposals, And So Many
Most schoolchildren in the English-speaking West read Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal in high school or college. S…
Against NATO: The Other Side of the Argument
Since 1989-1991 when every country in the USSR or the Warsaw Pact (save Russia) jumped ship at the earliest oppo…