The Screaming Pope

When you’re in a casino and playing 21, you say “hit me,” when you want to be dealt another card. There are some other phrases  like ...

Here is one of the many John McCain quotes that have recently been cited: “We never hide from history. We make history.” It’s an ar...

The July/August issue of  Foreign Affairs  asks “Which World Are We Living In?” The editor of the issue, Gideon Rose, prefaces it by ci...

The hero of the latest installment of   Mission Impossible--Fallout ,   Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is saddled with the task of saving th...

Very few cosmologists breach the question of what occurred before the big bang. If there were no particles in the ether of the infinite...

Thanks to Gabriel Josipovici whose  The Cemetery in Barnes   elicited the following paragraph from Michael Caines in the 6/15 TLS : “Ga...

Hitler’s Willing Executioners  is a book by Daniel Goldhagen. Goldhagen’s thesis is that German people as a whole were guilty of compli...