Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Reds under the Bed
How the secret police bedded in communism in postwar Central Europe
Apple Concentrate
Weirdness, greatness and everything in between: New Yorkers talk the talk
From Ronald to Donald
US Republican Party strategy and the irresistible populist temptation
Poor White Trash
How liberals in the US treated Bill Clinton’s accuser Paula Jones
Before the Deluge
A classic account of the life of a working class Parisian street
Priest of the Phallus
Lawrence’s skewed sexual politics and its legacy in the porn industry
Spanish Sketches
Orwell and the Spanish anarchists: not judging murder too severely
Running out of Road
Protestant population decline and the political short-sightedness of unionism
Against Mystique
National character: English decorum versus dreamy Celtic fecklessness
Witness to Revival
Mary Colum’s memoir of Ireland, literary revival and modernism
Beyond A Joke
A Tale Told by an Idiot: Jordan Peterson’s daring fictional gambit
The Authentic Voice
An examination of Italian cinematic neorealism and its artistic antecedents