In an age when glass-and-steel monoliths rise like tombstones over the graves of once-human cities, the classical idiom has come…
Sometimes, after reading that hash of mendacity and advocacy called the news, spattered with the opinions of people who cannot…
On a social media site the other day, someone posted a single sentence to the effect that he’d tried once…
I When the gloom of wintertide was deepest, when snow and ice fettered the earth, and a frost-wind came shoreward…
Arguably the greatest MMA fighter of all time, Dagestani Khabib Nurmagomedov defined his strategy in the octagon: “I take people…
It’s another milestone in the onward march of the bots — country music’s top song in the U.S. last week…
I have just finished re-reading Irving Stone’s historical novel, The Agony and the Ecstasy, on the life and times of…
In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see…
The other day, someone asked me why I thought the great epic by Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, no longer seems…