The Screaming Pope

Ever since George Soros shorted England in ‘92, there has been a growing market for profiting on the misfortunes of countries. The latest tu...

Larry Cutler is a former minor league baseball player whose name is immortalized in the City College Hall of Fame for having hit .429 as a s...

Isn’t there enough mystery in the knowable universe to account for man’s innate yearning for the transcendent?  For instance, take the quest...

Above the entrance to Plato’s Academy was the inscription “Let No One Who is Not a Geometer Enter.” Plato’s Academy was the eponymous Ivory ...

34 is the Parallel Universe that exists on Patchen Place in the 1940s. Djuna Barnes is the doyenne and the lingua franca is women who love w...

The notion of the parallel universe appears as a philosophical concept in Nietzsche’s Doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence. Though the concept...

Biographies of V.S. Naipaul and Arthur Koestler , by Patrick French and Michael Scammell, respectively, have recently been released. Both p...