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Small World One of the advantages of the U.K. compared to the U.S. is it’s small. In the five hours it takes to go from Micanopy, Florida (where I...
There has been no Congressional declaration of war against Iran, minimal consultation with Congress, and no coherent rationale submitted. What...
Press outside Wood Farm, Sandringham Estate, Norfolk. Feb. 20, 2026. Photo: The author. Sandringham A day after the arrest of Andrew...
A Munich Conference without myth would require attendees to squarely address a global, security system that serves to enrich what Bob Dylan in 1963...
When Jeffrey Epstein began harvesting professors for his dinners masked as seminars, he was drawing from a bountiful crop. It’s the rare professor...
Powys Castle and terraces from the southeast in fine weather, Powys, Wales. n.d. Photo: CC BY-SA 3.0. Friday, Jan. 16, 2026: A getaway The spectacle...
The attack on Venezuela was premediated and unsurprising except in one, significant respect: U.S. officials, most notably the garrulous president,...
The attack on Venezuela was premediated and unsurprising except in one, significant respect: U.S. officials, most notably the garrulous president, did...
The use of blindfolds and earmuffs to transport Maduro can’t be justified on national security grounds. Did they fear Maduro calling his generals on...
It’s often difficult to tell if a Dutch work of art from the 17th century is a portrait (conterfeytsels) or a tronie. Many pictures lack...
St. Christopher About ten years, ago, my wife Harriet and I spent part of a summer with my parents-in-law at their house in Burnham-Overy-Staithe, on...
Roundabouts The Thanksgiving trip from Norwich, England to the island of Anglesey in North Wales, where our daughter Molly lives, is about six hours,...
Divining the Future Stephen F. Eisenman The Dowsers Society To get to Norwich Market from our flat opposite Pulls Ferry, you walk north along River...
It’s a year since Trump’s election, and the liberal commentariat says it doesn’t matter what you call him, so long as you call him out. I...
The story of British abolitionism, its many failures and long overdue success, is a lesson in the limits of reform. Lacking a wider context of change,...
I always scoffed at “First They Came,” the often quoted, 1946 poem by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller. There are several versions of...
I’m generally disinclined to use the term “late-capitalism” because it assumes we are near enough the end that we can look back and chart...
Trump has sought to undermine every stabilizing institution of American political or civil society: Congress, the courts, federal agencies,...
I don’t know how we wound up on Pilgrim’s Way, legendary site of King Arthur and Queen Guenevere’s graves. My wife Harriet and I stopped in...
Last week’s papers were so bad, I decided to go cold turkey. It wasn’t because of the Times’ dutiful repetition of Israel’s mendacious claim...
ICE casualties are not found only among the thousands arrested, detained or deported. Simply knowing that people are being abducted based on how they...
The Kennedy Assassination in November 1963, the expanding quagmire of Vietnam, Nixon and Agnew’s corruption, Watergate, recession and inflation...
The new Florida concentration camp, likely the first of dozens that will be funded by Trump and congressional Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation...
A disturbance of memory at Sissinghurst It was 10:45 on a Saturday morning in June, sunny and 80 degrees. Harriet and I were standing near the front...
Everybody who has cataract surgery notices the change – that’s the whole point. But because I’m an art historian, and a significant part of my...
Everybody who has cataract surgery notices the change – that’s the whole point. But because I’m an art historian, and a significant part of my...
Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1964. Screenshot Brriinng…...
While Trump may be high on most historians’ list of worst presidents, he has plenty of company. His bonehead economics – tariffs one week, no...
Marking my calendar I no longer have the luxury of certainty that I’ll be dead before the end-times. The actuaries give me 14 more years, maybe one...
If there is to be a broad-based, democratic resistance, Kurosawa’s film suggests, the “hungry Samurai” who lead it must mobilize desire as well...
Trump’s onslaught has been relentless, and no one is safe. If legal residents – immigrants and students – protected by the first amendment, are...
March 23 – Bone Valley, Florida If there’s one thing about ecology everybody should know, it’s the story of shit. If you already do(o), or are...
The slow-moving line for passport inspection began on the jet bridge. Were Customs and Border Patrol agents deploying “enhanced vetting” to screen...
The ethos of cinema Comparing the moral stance of a popular movie to the national culture from which it arose is hard enough. Films are shaped by...
The spectacle of two billionaires – let’s call them M’ump -- wanting more and more money and power is mortifying. No matter how much they have,...
President Trump’s recent executive orders are an assault upon the framework of racial justice built since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of...
The word fascism derives from the Italian fascio, the name for the bundle of sticks carried by ancient Roman officials to beat into submission anybody...
News about the fire arrived in fragments. First, that the blaze in Eaton Canyon was spreading rapidly, then that a few homes in the foothills were...
In liberal, Jewish households, Hanukkah has always been something of an embarrassment. First, there’s the unavoidable truth that Hannukah is no...
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