The names we choose for events and concepts matter. America’s post 9/11 ventures we called the Global War on Terror (GWOT). It included a host of military…
The resurgence of piracy marks the periodic declines of civilisation, or of empire when the two words aren’t synonyms. Even Moamar Khadafy[1], when he’d achieved the status…
The Spanish-American War Memorial in a carelessly tended small park in Newport, Rhode Island, bears these words: ‘Dedicated to the memory of the citizens of Newport who served…
US 23 runs flat and straight through large farms between Marion and Toledo, Ohio. When farmers fertilised fields with a winter’s hog manure, a young driver had 90 miles to…
Few things damn fiduciaries more than failing to ask obvious questions.When given their statements, advisors with money at Bernie Madoff’s firm should have asked for the bona fides of Friehling…
Some years ago, I read The Alexiad by the Byzantine Princess Anna Comnena (1081-1151). Her history of her father’s reign, including the uninvited visit to Constantinople by the…