Odin's Ravens

Art by Igor Morski “Writing is the supreme solace,” said Somerset Maugham. “You shut the door, and within half an hour you hav...

As Michael Bell put it, "This should be used as an example of corporate terrorism. The attacks on regulation, slandering of unions an...

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Unclear on the concept of "confirmation." Lying propagandists often are, I find.

Happy 75th birthday anyway, big guy.

Somerset Maugham, then in his 70s, on his two 16th floor rooms at the Plaza in New York in the fall of 1945. "Everyone who comes in s...

Something approaching a quarter of contemporary Americans actually represents the 19 th century. Soaked in strange superstiti...