Odin's Ravens

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived to...

  The global game plan — "A right-wing populist harnesses the backlash to globalization’s failures to win an election on a grievance-fi...

Here we go again, more both-sider BS from the corporate news media… “The loss of the moderate center in both parties?” What claptrap. One pa...

“The vociferous critics of liberalism are like passengers on the Titanic who root for the iceberg,” wrote Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker.  “A...

“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree...

“A shining example, really, of the uneasy contract between the public and private (Ian) Fleming is the story about him flinging a squid at t...

This gets at something I have long suspected intuitively — that things do not really come into being and pass away. On some staggeringly d...