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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.

Jack Kerouac

Lit Crit

When Kerouac Cracked

Patrick Foy

With publication of On The Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became an overnight celebrity"no...

Lit Crit

Across the River and Into the Past

Patrick Foy

Ernest Hemingway’s Across the River and Into the Trees was published in 1950 to terr...

Mia Farrow and Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby, 1974

Uncategorized

The Great Great Gatsby

Patrick Foy

A recent Financial Times arts podcast predicts that we are headed for another outburst of ...

Politics

Same Election, Different Year

Patrick Foy

We are facing another US presidential election. The two candidates have been picked, most ...

Iran

Wag the Turban

Patrick Foy

Our Peace Prize president lobbed some harsh words toward Iran in his long-winded pep rally...

War

The New Trickle-Down Theory

Patrick Foy

Should we seek the deeper meaning in the video of US Marines urinating on Taliban combatan...

Elle and Blair Fowler

Zeitgeist

Ideology: A Waste of Time

Patrick Foy

My executive editor at a Florida magazine, Hardy Burt, informed me at lunch one day, ̶...

Adel al-Jubeir

Warshington

Terror Plot or Drug Sting?

Patrick Foy

Last week brought news of a purported Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador to the ...

Mahmoud Abbas

Middle East

Mr. Abbas Goes to the UN

Patrick Foy

The protracted Mideast “peace process” has finally hit the Iron Wall. The Pale...

Foreign Policy

9/11: Blowback for US Foreign Policy

Patrick Foy

With the 9/11 anniversary upon us once again, Middle East expert Robert Fisk in Beirut has...

Israel

Bedtime for Bibi

Patrick Foy

The only good thing which could result from Bibi Netanyahu’s May 24 speech to a join...

President George W. Bush and President George H.W. Bush

War

How We Squandered the Peace Dividend

Patrick Foy

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and effectively ended the Cold War, there was tremendous...

Libya

Obama’s Imperial Presidency

Patrick Foy

It looks as if Washington has fallen into another trap with Obama’s move on Libya. Y...

International Affairs

The Post-Tsunami Forecast

Patrick Foy

The massive 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in northern Japan will be a game-changer...

Mr Donald Trump

GOP

Donald Trump, You’re Hired!

Patrick Foy

Would you vote for The Donald for president? Compared to Obama, anyone with sense would ...

History

Churchill: More Myth Than Legend

Patrick Foy

Last week a country-club Republican friend in Palm Beach gave me a copy of The Weekly Stan...

High Life

Tennis Legend Gardnar Mulloy: Still Serving at 97

Patrick Foy

I do not have many friends who are 97, but tennis legend Gardnar Mulloy is one of them. It...

Afternoon Delight

The Best Christmas Movie You Never Heard Of

Patrick Foy

Did anyone catch that movie last Sunday morning at ten on the TCM channel? If you did, you...

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remembrance

Did FDR Engineer Pearl Harbor?

Patrick Foy

As a history buff, I have tried to come to terms with the “surprise” Japanese ...

Terror!

Ignoring What Caused the TSA Pat-Down Controversy

Patrick Foy

I can vaguely remember a time when there were no security checks whatever before getting o...

News

David Broder, Obama, and War With Iran

Patrick Foy

David Broder’s recent observations about our Peace Prize President have created a st...

International Affairs

Germany Makes its Final WWI Reparations Payment

Patrick Foy

Taki’s praise of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the The Great Gatsby is much deserved. If G...

Modest Proposals

On Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative

Patrick Foy

Something called the Clinton Global Initiative has been brought to my attention by an AP d...

Arrigo Cipriani

High Life

With Love From Harry’s Bar

Patrick Foy

It is quite possible that my favorite restaurant in the world is Harry’s Bar in Veni...

Journalism

The Frank Rich Syndrome

Patrick Foy

Thank God for air conditioning. A scorching Labor Day weekend found me home-bound, doing r...

International Affairs

Playing the China Card

Patrick Foy

Recently, China overtook Germany as the world’s largest exporter. And just the other...

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