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Nov 18, 2025
Today, the epistemological situation is murkier. Are we still the hegemon, or has the international system shifted to bipolarity? Has China in fact already eclipsed the United States...
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Nov 3, 2025
As if by a lit delay fuse finally reaching its explosive charge, the issue of mass immigration has exploded the political establishments of the developed world. Many...
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Aug 25, 2025
In my lifetime, the music and fashion of the 1980s has undergone a near-total revaluation. Derided as deeply uncool and somehow fake and inauthentic for years, the distinctive style...
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Jul 17, 2025
It is no secret that Americans enjoy violence. What Raymond Chandler called “the simple art of murder” remains a constant source of fascination for us, so much so that it...
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Jul 11, 2025
This month, The New York Times released one of those “best films of the century so far”-type lists that periodicals love so much, sourced from 500-plus...
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Jun 23, 2025
If there is a patron saint of this newsletter (not that there should be such a ridiculous thing) it would have to be Michel de Montaigne. It is his estate that adorns the landing...
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May 9, 2025
Shocking as it is to report, Donald Trump has only been in office just over three months. In that short time, he has roiled the news cycles (and the markets) with radical changes to...
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Feb 24, 2025
Humour is a strange thing. Back when Christopher Hitchens was both alive and still playing his assigned role of Naughty Little Provocateur, he attracted some controversy over an...
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Jan 27, 2025
For at least several decades, a handful of clichés were understood to be generally representative of the American college experience: binge drinking, frat parties,...
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Jan 10, 2025
One of the original proposed names for Monty Python’s Flying Circus was supposedly “Whither Canada?” This once comical question is now being asked...
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Jan 6, 2025
In viewing A Complete Unknown, I must admit to remaining mystified that rock biopics continue to get made at all in the wake of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the...
Nov 18, 2025Today, the epistemological situation is murkier. Are we still the hegemon, or has the international system shifted to bipolarity? Has China in fact already eclipsed the United States...
Nov 3, 2025As if by a lit delay fuse finally reaching its explosive charge, the issue of mass immigration has exploded the political establishments of the developed world. Many...
Aug 25, 2025In my lifetime, the music and fashion of the 1980s has undergone a near-total revaluation. Derided as deeply uncool and somehow fake and inauthentic for years, the distinctive style...
Jul 17, 2025It is no secret that Americans enjoy violence. What Raymond Chandler called “the simple art of murder” remains a constant source of fascination for us, so much so that it...
Jul 11, 2025This month, The New York Times released one of those “best films of the century so far”-type lists that periodicals love so much, sourced from 500-plus...
Jun 23, 2025If there is a patron saint of this newsletter (not that there should be such a ridiculous thing) it would have to be Michel de Montaigne. It is his estate that adorns the landing...
May 9, 2025Shocking as it is to report, Donald Trump has only been in office just over three months. In that short time, he has roiled the news cycles (and the markets) with radical changes to...
Feb 24, 2025Humour is a strange thing. Back when Christopher Hitchens was both alive and still playing his assigned role of Naughty Little Provocateur, he attracted some controversy over an...
Jan 27, 2025For at least several decades, a handful of clichés were understood to be generally representative of the American college experience: binge drinking, frat parties,...
Jan 10, 2025One of the original proposed names for Monty Python’s Flying Circus was supposedly “Whither Canada?” This once comical question is now being asked...
Jan 6, 2025In viewing A Complete Unknown, I must admit to remaining mystified that rock biopics continue to get made at all in the wake of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the...