The one thing upon which the world’s major religions and most schools of philosophy are agreed are the perils and evil of human greed. Unfortunately, there are some people who didn’t get this particular memo. Take the Waltons, for example, the family behind the Walmart retail empire. According to the…

Few writers understood America’s racist soul as keenly as Richard Wright (pictured above), and few used their pen as mercilessly as he did as a weapon to excoriate and expose it. In black heavyweight champion and ring legend, Joe Louis, Wright found the perfect symbol of black resistance to the…

In his epic and comprehensive work, The Second World War, Anthony Beevor writes with customary economy: On 27 January in the middle of the afternoon, a reconnaissance patrol from the 107th Rifle Division (attached to the Red Army’s 60th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front) emerged from a snowbound forest…

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” Oscar Wilde The crimes of rape and sexual assault are as serious as it gets and anyone found guilty of such deserves zero sympathy and should face the full weight of the law, without question. When it comes to demon…

“Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!” Arthur Miller, ‘The Crucible’ The furore whipped up over the allegations by multiple women that comedian, actor, activist, and prolific podcaster, Russell Brand, had either raped or sexually assaulted them on separate occasions over a ten-year-period, has been eminently instructive, not to mention…

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.” Samuel Beckett The former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya — what each of the aforementioned experiments in NATO/Western intervention have in common is the lawlessness, societal collapse, extremism, and chaos that ensued thereafter. Given the empirical, irrefutable and undeniable evidence of the West’s…

On 9/11, 1973, Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, perished — along with thousands of his supporters — after the Chilean military, led by General Augusto Pinochet with the support of Washington, mounted a coup that succeeded in overthrowing his government. For obvious though lamentable reasons this is the 9/11…

The sheer intensity of the outpouring of national grief in Britain over the death of Queen Elizabeth II at age 96 one year ago was revelatory to behold. …

One of the most bitter public feuds in the history of American letters raged between Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal from the early 1970s all the way into the mid-eighties, when they finally reconciled. …