Lars Walker
I had a couple arguments online recently, and came away with bruises. The upside of insult, though, for a writer, is always that you can plow it back into your work and make it pay you. It’s petty, I’ll admit,…
The scenario is classic, even hackneyed. Two families have been feuding for generations. Then a young man from one family meets a young woman from the other, and by their marriage the parties are reconciled. Peace reigns. Children (one imagines)…
“Not too well, actually,” said my friend Colin when I asked him how he was doing. That surprised me, coming from him. Colin’s an oncologist with a pretty successful practice, and he learned long ago to steer conversations away from…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a man who knew as much about real evil as the fictional kind, wrote of a realization he had during his internment in the Soviet gulag: “Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and…
Imagine a television comedy about an American who moves to an exotic foreign country. He utterly refuses to assimilate, flouts the local laws, beats up people who offend him (including, in a scene that shocked even me, a Muslim who…
I think it was Thursdays, but it might have been Tuesdays. I’m pretty sure the day started with a T. It was the best day of the week that year in elementary school for me, because we could get optional…
It isn’t often that human excrement brings clarity, unless you’re a diagnostician. And yet a story from Fox Sports, “Soccer Fans Banned for 3 Years,” put everything into perspective for me: German soccer club FC Cologne announced Thursday three fans…
My heart is in Norway. Right now, it’s broken. I’m tempted to say that the damage Anders Behring Breivik has done to Norway’s (and Europe’s) cultural and political situation is worse than the actual injuries and deaths he inflicted. But that…
Time Machine: Troopers, by Hal Colebatch (Acashic Publishing, 172 pages) In its own way, American Spectator contributor Hal Colebatch’s new novel, Time Machine: Troopers, is as subversive a book as any written in our time. What differentiates it from famous subversive…
Counterstrike, by Hal Colebatch (Acashic Publishing, 245 pages, $23.99 paper; $19.99 e-book) In the Information Age, a lie may be the most powerful weapon of all. The American Spectator’s own Hal G. P. Colebatch, Australian lawyer and poet, as well…
