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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

The Remains of the Day – Two Readings, Two Shadows

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is, on the surface, a beautifully restrained novel about...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Virgil Got Eternally Screwed: Review of Dante’s Purgatorio (Mark Musa Translation)

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Dante’s Purgatorio , in contrast with the fire and fury of Inferno and Roman splendor of Paradiso , is the canticle of hope. It is the most...
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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

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W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz is a novel built on the slow recovery of memory. Rather than unfolding in a straight line, the story emerges throu...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

A Man Called Intrepid: How Intelligence Kept Britain Alive in World War II

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  William Stevenson’s A Man Called Intrepid tells the story of Sir William Stephenson, the Canadian who became Britain’s intelligence chief...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Talking Electric Cars in a Rural Massachusetts Restaurant

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  I'm in Providence RI for the week.  My wife is at a math conference. I am riding and visiting friends here and in Boston.  Yesterday I...
Monday, August 11, 2025

RFK Jr. Has Turned Fake Science into America's Reality

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If Trump did nothing more than appoint RFK Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary, Trump would be the worst President in American Histor...
Monday, August 4, 2025

"Colossus" at 20: How Niall Ferguson's American Empire Became Reality

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  Colossus  by Niall Ferguson (2005) The Republic Is Dead. Long Live the Empire. In Colossus , Niall Ferguson strips away the post–Cold War ...