Patrick Foy 
Patrick Foy is a writer and photographer and the author of The Unauthorized World Situation Report. You can read more at www.PatrickFoyDossier.com.
Cultural Caviar
When Kerouac CrackedDec 04 2013 With publication of On The Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became an overnight celebrity"not just famous, but a phenomenon. The experience brought him to another |
Cultural Caviar
Across the River and Into the PastOct 16 2013 Ernest Hemingway’s Across the River and Into the Trees was published in 1950 to terrible reviews, but I recall that at some point in the |
Uncategorized
The Great Great GatsbyJul 02 2012 A recent Financial Times arts podcast predicts that we are headed for another outburst of Great Gatsby mania. A new movie version of F. Scott |
Politics
Same Election, Different YearApr 17 2012 We are facing another US presidential election. The two candidates have been picked, most likely by hand. It is depressing how fast these contests come |
Iran
Wag the TurbanJan 30 2012 Our Peace Prize president lobbed some harsh words toward Iran in his long-winded pep rally last Tuesday night: Ending the Iraq war has allowed us |
Politics
The New Trickle-Down TheoryJan 18 2012 Should we seek the deeper meaning in the video of US Marines urinating on Taliban combatants’ dead bodies in the wilds of Afghanistan? What does |
Cultural Caviar
Ideology: A Waste of TimeOct 27 2011 My executive editor at a Florida magazine, Hardy Burt, informed me at lunch one day, “God is a girl!” This was after his first vodka |
Politics
Terror Plot or Drug Sting?Oct 19 2011 Last week brought news of a purported Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador to the US Adel al-Jubeir, but the whole murder-for-hire story may have |
Middle East
Mr. Abbas Goes to the UNSep 23 2011 The protracted Mideast “peace process” has finally hit the Iron Wall. The Palestinian Authority’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, has wandered off the reservation and is taking |
Foreign Policy
9/11: Blowback for US Foreign PolicySep 10 2011 With the 9/11 anniversary upon us once again, Middle East expert Robert Fisk in Beirut has written an instructive article about our predicament. He says |
Israel
Bedtime for BibiJun 01 2011 The only good thing which could result from Bibi Netanyahu’s May 24 speech to a joint session of the US Congress is that it may |
Politics
How We Squandered the Peace DividendMay 06 2011 When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and effectively ended the Cold War, there was tremendous relief and a sense of hope for the future. |
Libya
Obama’s Imperial PresidencyApr 07 2011 It looks as if Washington has fallen into another trap with Obama’s move on Libya. Yes, the Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi is a nutcase and |
Commerce
The Post-Tsunami ForecastMar 22 2011 The massive 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in northern Japan will be a game-changer. Both negatively and positively, the reverberations will be felt across all |
Cultural Caviar
Donald Trump, You’re Hired!Feb 28 2011 Would you vote for The Donald for president? Compared to Obama, anyone with sense would vote for him. Obama is a disaster, like Bush II |
Cultural Caviar
Churchill: More Myth Than LegendFeb 02 2011 Last week a country-club Republican friend in Palm Beach gave me a copy of The Weekly Standard and urged me to read “A World in |
Cultural Caviar
Tennis Legend Gardnar Mulloy: Still Serving at 97Jan 06 2011 I do not have many friends who are 97, but tennis legend Gardnar Mulloy is one of them. It is not clear why I should |
Afternoon Delight
The Best Christmas Movie You Never Heard OfDec 23 2010 Did anyone catch that movie last Sunday morning at ten on the TCM channel? If you did, you are probably still thinking about it like |
Cultural Caviar
Did FDR Engineer Pearl Harbor?Dec 06 2010 As a history buff, I have tried to come to terms with the “surprise” Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. That lugubrious anniversary"December 7th"is fast approaching. |
Politics
Ignoring What Caused the TSA Pat-Down ControversyNov 30 2010 I can vaguely remember a time when there were no security checks whatever before getting on a commercial jet. You showed your ticket and walked |
News
David Broder, Obama, and War With IranNov 08 2010 David Broder’s recent observations about our Peace Prize President have created a stir. In his controversial October 31 Washington Post op-ed “How Obama might recover”, |
International Affairs
Germany Makes its Final WWI Reparations PaymentOct 19 2010 Taki’s praise of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the The Great Gatsby is much deserved. If Gatsby is not quite the best American novel, its opening |
Commerce
On Bill Clinton’s Global InitiativeSep 30 2010 Something called the Clinton Global Initiative has been brought to my attention by an AP dispatch dated September 21st entitled “Bill Clinton: Economy, disasters imperil |
High Life
With Love From Harry’s BarSep 16 2010 It is quite possible that my favorite restaurant in the world is Harry’s Bar in Venice. For one thing, it is the home of the |
Journalism
The Frank Rich SyndromeSep 12 2010 Thank God for air conditioning. A scorching Labor Day weekend found me home-bound, doing research on New York Times columnist Mr. Frank Rich. Unlike most |
International Affairs
Playing the China CardAug 25 2010 Recently, China overtook Germany as the world’s largest exporter. And just the other day, China was calculated to have overtaken Japan as the second largest |
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