The Screaming Pope

 Joseph Jefferson as Rip van Winkle (photo by Napoleon Sarony) There are certain old people who are praised for their vo...

Flaubert once said “ Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your wor...

Plato believed that poets had no place in his Republic, and he had a point. Would you have wanted Ezra Pound or Marinetti, both fascist symp...

This could very well be the beginning of a new age! If China revalues the renminbi , the two-state solution finally gains traction in the M...