To govern does not equal to change
In 2016 following the vote on Brexit, an American political journalist wrote: “But what if progressivism…
In 2016 following the vote on Brexit, an American political journalist wrote: “But what if progressivism…
In 1815 Mount Tambora, on the northern coast of the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, erupted in…
As described in the previous post, Free speech for public servants and Osip Mandelstam, I am…
I am returning today to my notes on my travels, and piecing together the literary and…
Today I am posting the last (for now) of my reposts from earlier, retired blogs. This…
On my trip to Moscow I visited the State Historical Museum in Moscow, housed in the…
After Prague we travelled by train to Berlin. There were no preeminent icons of literature –…
My old boss and sometime mentor, Terry Moran, has given an oration in which he sets…
Writing in the New York Times (Jan 10 2019), David Brooks proposes the “remoralization of the market” as the…
Looking over my posts for the year I am struck by the recurrence of history in…