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by | Jan 10, 2026

President Trump’s first year in office has seen an almost unprecedented whirlwind of presidential executive actions.  Not since the administration…

by | Nov 15, 2025

It’s another milestone in the onward march of the bots — country music’s top song in the U.S. last week…

by | Nov 8, 2025

I have just finished re-reading Irving Stone’s historical novel, The Agony and the Ecstasy, on the life and times of…

by | Oct 18, 2025

E Is for Edward: A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey By Gregory Hischak Black Dog &…

by | Oct 9, 2025

It’s been said of him that he straddles magical figuration and surrealism, and I’m not sure whether that description applies…

by | Aug 17, 2025

And as moths swiftly rushing enter a burning flame and die, so all these men rush to thy fire, rush…

by | Aug 9, 2025

At the tender age of eight, John Gideon Millingen found himself whisked away from his comfortable London home at No….

by | Jul 19, 2025

It’s going on 30 years since we last heard from Dieter. He was the ultra-Berliner who hosted the fictional German…

by | Jun 14, 2025

The eighteenth-century Hellenist Johann Joachim Winckelmann maintained that the “finest and most beautiful drawing in the world” could be found…

by | Jun 14, 2025

Over the past week came another positive indicator of Pope Leo’s emergent style of quiet but firm leadership. It occurred…

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