The course of American empire
These days, the political climes of the United States are deeply unhappy. The weather, as if endorsing the pathetic fallacy…
Donald Trump and the unreality of a two-state solution
The AIPAC conference, that annual celebration of the triangular romance between America, Israel and American Jews, concluded last night with…
The 2018 Oscars were indulgent, overlong, and weirdly amateurish — again
It was always going to be difficult for this year’s Oscars to balance politics and entertainment, the sweeping declaration with…
Oscars 2018: and the winners are…
Tomorrow night, TV viewers will take to their couches for a night of Hollywood glamour, razzmatazz and gross hypocrisy. A…
Bruce on Broadway – and out of touch
Bruce Springsteen promised that he was ‘Born To Run’, and now, like Judy Garland and Ethel Merman before him, he…
What do Walt Whitman, Jackson Pollock and Jimi Hendrix have in common?
On 3 September 1968, Allen Ginsberg appeared on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line. Buckley exposed Ginsberg’s politics as fatuous —…
