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Friday 20 March 2020

Friday 20 March 2020

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December 23, 2024

Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) shares the fate of most famous literary figures—that few people actually read them. In the case of Shaw, they may remember "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain" and "I could have danced all night," from the musical My Fair Lady, based on Shaw's play Pygmalion, and they may also remember the opera The Chocolate Soldier by Oscar Straus, based on Shaw's play Arms and the Man; but active knowledge of his work resides in no more than three percent of people in any country, Britain or the U.S.

December 23, 2024

Building a National Will

Presidential elections have begun to bore me. I did vote. I wouldn't have missed it for anything, but I am also mature enough to know that the 2024 Election stands out as hardly more than a blip in the course of history—just another year in America's Political League Championship—hardly different from America's football or basketball championships. All of the players have been repeatedly vetted to do their jobs. They celebrate their victory until the next contest.

December 12, 2024

Who is Curtis Yarvin?

This article appeared in the German-language newspaper, Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), based in Zürich, Switzerland, on the 18th of November. Its self-apparent title, refers to President-elect Donald Trump and his advisor Curtis Yarvin—named in the article as Trump's "dunkler Einflüsterer", or "dark whisperer", suggesting a mysterious confidential-advisor whom no one else knows.

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