The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

A core belief of modern men and women at least in the West is that marriages/partnerships are based on romantic love.  When two people wish ...

Off again to Canada to visit my daughter.  I'll be on an Air France flight early afternoon and staying most of next week. Montréal is on...

"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know  What I was walling in or walling out,  And to whom I was like to give offence.  Somethin...

Speaking of Orwell, here is an outstanding Ted talk by Glenn Greenwald (h/t Jim). Has the best response I've seen so far to the "...

Last week I picked up and read a collection of George Orwell's essays.  I love Orwell for many reasons, but one is surely the difficulty...

A few days ago the hit counter on my blog dashboard reached 400,000 hits.  (That is the total number of hits received over the years the F...

"There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bou...