RANGEL ON THE BEACH......may do him in says this
peculiar (but possibly prophetic) article. But the Ethics
Committee of the House has had far more damning material available
for years.
SO WHO RESIGNS, BHO OR RE? David Broder casts a possibly revealing light on the trouble in the White House and thereby disagrees with most of his colleagues at the Washington Post.
ANOTHER AMERICAN (POLITICAL) TRAGEDY......is detailed from the inside by John Edwards' once-devoted main guy who took the fall for him and now "tells all." Just think what Sinclair Lewis could have done with this material!
THE CAPTURE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN......was enabled by some pretty fancy socio-metric footwork. The story is very well told in this series of articles (with great graphics) from Slate magazine.
THE LASTINGNESS OF GEORGE ORWELL.....is appreciatively examined by another fine English critic who explains why other reputations of that time (the pre and immediately post-war years) have diminished while Orwell still speaks strongly to us.
THE DIFFICULT CASE OF CELINE......who may have been a great (or at least a lasting) writer and was, as well, a vile and violent anti-semite. The New York Review of Books is the source of this extended review/essay.
SOME THINGS ARE ACTUALLY IMPROVING! You ask: What? Well, for one thing, according to a Finnish researcher, women are getting to be more and more beautiful. There is a sort of Darwinian explanation and it is provided here by the U.K. Telegraph.
THE FADING OF PRESIDENTIAL CHARISMAPHILIA......may be an inevitable consequence of the charismatic figure actually spending a year in office. But, in the case of Obama, the process seems to have been accelerated according to this analysis from the current edition of The Weekly Standard.
WHY DO WE GO FOR MEMOIRS? The "we" in that question is, in fact, the proprietor of this blog who confesses to that literary addiction. This fine essay from the New Yorker explains it all...almost.
MORE GREAT JAZZ FROM AUSTRALIA: Every week, on Australian national radio, the Jazzology program spreads the good sound from Sydney to Perth. Here's a great, recent installment.
SO WHO RESIGNS, BHO OR RE? David Broder casts a possibly revealing light on the trouble in the White House and thereby disagrees with most of his colleagues at the Washington Post.
ANOTHER AMERICAN (POLITICAL) TRAGEDY......is detailed from the inside by John Edwards' once-devoted main guy who took the fall for him and now "tells all." Just think what Sinclair Lewis could have done with this material!
THE CAPTURE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN......was enabled by some pretty fancy socio-metric footwork. The story is very well told in this series of articles (with great graphics) from Slate magazine.
THE LASTINGNESS OF GEORGE ORWELL.....is appreciatively examined by another fine English critic who explains why other reputations of that time (the pre and immediately post-war years) have diminished while Orwell still speaks strongly to us.
THE DIFFICULT CASE OF CELINE......who may have been a great (or at least a lasting) writer and was, as well, a vile and violent anti-semite. The New York Review of Books is the source of this extended review/essay.
SOME THINGS ARE ACTUALLY IMPROVING! You ask: What? Well, for one thing, according to a Finnish researcher, women are getting to be more and more beautiful. There is a sort of Darwinian explanation and it is provided here by the U.K. Telegraph.
THE FADING OF PRESIDENTIAL CHARISMAPHILIA......may be an inevitable consequence of the charismatic figure actually spending a year in office. But, in the case of Obama, the process seems to have been accelerated according to this analysis from the current edition of The Weekly Standard.
WHY DO WE GO FOR MEMOIRS? The "we" in that question is, in fact, the proprietor of this blog who confesses to that literary addiction. This fine essay from the New Yorker explains it all...almost.
MORE GREAT JAZZ FROM AUSTRALIA: Every week, on Australian national radio, the Jazzology program spreads the good sound from Sydney to Perth. Here's a great, recent installment.
