‘Make America Great Again’, Donald Trump’s slogan, has many ancestors. I found another insurgent candidate with resonant mottos in Guy de la Bedoyere’s wonderful The Real Lives of Roman Britain…
‘Among its rivals – China, India, Germany and Japan – the United States no longer figures as a superpower. With the worst infrastructure in the advanced world, a disappearing middle…
‘Leave it to the Chinese to secure the White House, the US Capitol, most US Airports and international borders.’ That headline on an eTurboNews.com release on Feb. 1 grabbed my…
On my first trip to the Bahamas in April 2008 I happened on a ‘rush’ by a small Junkanoo band. I was hooked. My new gallery shows why. We…
When listening to the Declaration of Independence tomorrow, it’s well to recall how much of today’s American politics – and fiscal frolics – have English precedents. Our break with…
‘Dies irae, dies illa’. ‘Day of wrath, day of anger’. That line from Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor greeted me when I turned on ABC Classic…