“Reminds one of an etching that has been precisely scribed to create a sharp effect.” — Michael Collins, author of St George and the Dragons: The Making of English Identity “Imagine a […]
New Book Release: American Rococo
Anglish and English: Why our language is 750 and not 1,500 years old
How English arose is a captivating story with a great cast of characters, though they happen to be groups of people and texts rather than individuals. It emerges out of the mists […]
An American talisman
A talisman has appeared in twenty-first century America, one with astonishing magical powers, a glass amulet utterly bewitching and miraculous, fitting in the palm like a mini crystal ball. To young kids […]
My problem with the atheists (it’s not what you think)
Group marriage does not look quite so terrible as the philistines, whose minds cannot get beyond brothels, imagine it to be. — Frederick Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and […]
The 1.3 billion-strong temper tantrum: Review of Arthur Meursault’s Party Members
You’re nine years old and showing off your new iPad on the school playground, and the class bully snatches it out of your hands. Now, there are two things you can do. […]
Living the Taiping: Interview with James Lande
Last century China experienced one of its periodic mid-century blowouts, where everything that can go wrong does go wrong and tens of millions die in senseless slaughter. The Chinese Civil War of […]
From Van Gogh to the Camino de Santiago: Symbolic travel and the modern pilgrim
O errant traveler, by your spirit of adventure that has caused you from tenderest years to leave behind father and mother…by the dignity man gains through voyages over distant territories and uncharted […]
