Mystical Politics

Tonight I decided to look through the pile of old newspapers and clippings that I took out of the cupboard yesterday (I had needed more room...

Wikileaks has put up a long list of pager messages from 9/11/01 (not saying, of course, where they got them from). I just read through quit...

I should be grading map exercises, but instead I've been reading blogs, and like other people, have found George Orwell's entries in...

This guy really does fascinate me, but I hope my small band of readers isn't getting too bored by my posts about him. It amazes me that ...

W.H. Auden's words in his poem "September, 1939," still resonate for me as also evoking September 11, 2001. I sit in one of th...