Widower's Tango

In 1990, a film was released called Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by Paul Verhoeven. It employed a narrative de...

by George Orwell [Tribune, 24 December 1943] The thought of Christmas raises almost automatically the thought of Charles Dickens, and for tw...

There has been a political fight going on in America over the custody of Christmas. Because of the insistence of liberals that the First Ame...

"And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? ...

I first encountered the writings of David Thomson in the occasional pieces he wrote for British and American periodicals like The New Republ...

[One of the qualities that distinguishes the writing of George Orwell is his ability to show how direct experience shaped his ideas about po...

[Unfinished Business - One of the disadvantages of not writing for a deadline is that I sometimes get sidetracked by other ideas and wind up...