Varanasi, India

India Welcomes the American Maharaja

On Monday, President Trump addressed over a hundred thousand Hindoos of every caste and Vedic creed. Liberal bubble-dwellers were stunned that so many brown people would exalt our Orange Maharaja, but for anyone who’s visited the subcontinent, it makes perfect sense. The people of India love cartoonish god-kings, embrace hard-line nationalism, and ...


How to Fly in Comfort

About 44.3 million Americans are going to be flying this holiday season, which is a million more than last year. This is ironic because flying becomes about a million times worse every year. Here are ten ways to make it easier to hurl ...

Raikot polo

Playing Polo in Heaven

For somewhere a long way from anywhere, Nanga Parbat is a pretty lively place. The five-mile-high peak rises from a syntaxis, a center of compression where folding rocks collide and steam spits from its sides as Earth's ninth-highest ...

Scenes From a Nashville Convenience Store

I didn"€™t expect to see so many derelicts in Music City USA. I thought the home of country music would be a little more...country? Last week I fled the Atlanta metro area to spend three days in Nashville for my birthday. As a ...

Warming Up to the Sunshine State

It really is possible to change your attitudes, even in…well, let’s say late middle age. Case in point: Florida. Which is to say, me and Florida. To reverse Dr. Johnson’s remark on free will: All reason is against it, all ...

10 Things I Learned About the South

In 1831, Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville came to America. Four years later, he published an outsider's perspective of the culture that remained the gold standard for exactly 176 years. Time's up, Alex. I"€™m an Englishman born to ...

Inside Burning Man

Burning Man defies easy categorization. Wikipedia describes it as “an annual week-long event held in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada,” but that doesn"€™t tell you very much. Burning Man is many things: a post-apocalyptic ...

An American’s Guide to Moving to Australia

In spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of ... emigrating. And when it does, I often seem to hear about it. My e-mail inbox, quiescent until recently, has since early March begun to fill up again—just as it had ...


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