The View from the Quai Voltaire

The worst (most pointless, gratuitous, cruel) atrocities are those that somebody has a right to perpetrate.

We expatiated on the Zelenski proposal to bomb Moscow. The Kremlin? The Church of Christ the Saviour? Why not St. Petersburg? Does Mr. Z. ha...

A lot of people. There was concurrence and consensus among a broad spectrum of the actual holders of power (Texas oil magnates, the Mob, the...

The other thing that the post-war generation did--besides ending the military draft--was legalize weed. You really can't, as Richard Nix...

Silly pother. Stupid and ugly misappropriation of a rather subtle and exquisite Greek myth. Sure people are sometimes ridiculously and hurtf...

Instead of the Albrego-Garcia case, we'd have had President Kamala Harris. A whole other level  of presidential idiocy perhaps, but not ...