What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...
“Depend upon it, sir,” said Dr. Johnson, “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” I suppose that in logic his mind ought to continue to concentrate ...
Will there always be an England? Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has put the answer to that question very much in doubt. The prime minister’s strategy seems to be to look around for dystopian novels and ...
Everyone knows about Aesop and his fables, but few have ever read straight through any serious collection of them, never mind Ben Edwin Perry’s unsurpassed Aesopica of 1952, which assembles 725, along ...
While William Faulkner remains the leading figure in the flowering of Southern literature from the middle of the last century, more than a few others are well worth any reader’s attention: Robert Penn ...