A Political Refugee From The Global Village

How much closer America now seems in our imagination to Europe than when Jung visited. His first visit was in 1909. To a keen Europe...

Life is made up of the most differing, unforeseen, contradictory, ill-assorted things; it is brutal, arbitrary, disconnected, full of inex...

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone...

“The Democrats, the longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focus...

I have given up on touristland.  Angkor War (its Hindu temples are beautiful and romantic while comparatively untouristed Bagan's are...

My two posts on the Weathermen, the terrorist wing of the American student radical movement in the era of Richard Nixon, weren't int...

The SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) was an important American student organisation in the 1960s known for its activism against the ...

“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” An unnamed “SDS radical” quoted by David Horowitz - I wonder which ...

Last month a Romanian, posting on Facebook, called the gendarmes guarding the National Anticorruption Department (DNA) "slaves", ...

I wrote about the murderer Charles Manson  when he died two weeks ago. He was one of the increasingly few people who was before my time.  ...

I blogged about the death of Sir Edward du Cann here . I wanted to add this, which I just read in The Spectator by Charles Moore. Sir Ed...

O good old man, how well in thee appears the constant service of the antique world. I have been very busy and had simply no time to blog ...

'I find it odd that people often call for a Reformation in Islam, because no one seems more Salafist and bloodthirsty than the men (mo...

When Colin Powell stood outside the Security Council meeting room to discuss the forthcoming invasion of Iraq a curtain was tactfully or di...

A year ago the technocrat environmental minister, Cristiana Pașca Palmer, brought in a law to make hunting bears illegal in Romania. She sa...

Charles Manson has died in gaol. He was a cult leader who, in 1971, was found guilty of nine first-degree murders including the murder of a...

Friendship, “the wine of life,” should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although ...

Inspired by the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment, Mrs Sarah Hall, a 40 year-old British PR consultant, was reading a version of...

H.M. Queen Elizabeth II's and the Duke of Edinburgh's 70th wedding anniversary. King Michael of Romania attended the wedding, met h...

Many things will die out with my generation, which is to say people born in the 1960s. European ethnic states, Christendom, or at least the...