Some years ago, I asked the owner of the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, the only specialist secondhand poetry store in Britain, whether he had any books by poets with one leg. He said, perhaps not surprisingly, that it was the first time that he had ever been asked the question. I knew of only two, W.E. Henley and W.H. Davies, and since I was ...
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So we've been through an entire debate, and Kamala Harris still hasn't explained any of her extraordinary policy flip-flops. I'm sorry, a person ...
If occasionally my columns seem to wander, it’s because sometimes the story itself wanders. A columnist can write by-the-numbers drivel (see ...
You know how a doddery old white Irishman, Joe Biden, has just been pushed aside and replaced by a thrusting, younger, more coffee-colored ethnic ...
In 1982 the federal budget deficit rose above $100 billion for the first time (those were the good old days!), and then-President Ronald Reagan ...
