If song lyrics were treated as poetry, Taylor Swift would be the most popular poet in history. She even invokes the romantic image of the poète...
The sudden collapse of the Assad regime is one of those “in retrospect it was inevitable but no one saw it coming” moments. Exactly where it...
“What are we waiting for?” chants Laurie Anderson in the opening lines of Waiting for the Barbarians. The answer, of course, is the title of Constantine...
Peter Dutton’s declaration that he will not stand next to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags turns the arc of Australian history off the path it...
Almost eighty years ago a small New York publishing house put out a new book of cartoons by Saul Steinberg, then a rising cartoonist at the...
Almost eighty years ago a small New York publishing house put out a new book of cartoons by Saul Steinberg, a rising cartoonist at the New...
Cohiba is the Rolls-Royce of cigar manufacturers. Its Behike 56, for example, costs over $1500 for a box of ten. Handmade in communist Cuba, the Cohiba...
Two narratives compete about public administration. One is captured by Georgetown University’s Dan Honig in his new book, Mission Driven Bureaucrats. It assumes government can make...
With almost half the world’s population voting in national or Europe-wide elections during 2024, Time magazine declared it “the ultimate election year.” Now it’s almost over...
Up until the moment he fled to Moscow this week, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad stubbornly refused to smooth the path to a new administration. His army,...