January 2021

Ezra Pound was a crank who would have been a perfect fit for the internet age

I was not ready for lockdown. We are slowly going mad

Biden’s foreign policy is rooted in the mythology of the Cold War

Trump was the mildest of corrections to the failures of post-Cold War liberalism

Human beings love being scared witless

Younger Berliners seem to want their lives to look as austere as possible

Under Biden, expect intoxicated self-righteousness to make a comeback

Biden, on or past the threshold of senility, is the embodiment of that pajama-boy spirit of fragile futility

Beneath the mask of American discontent

Many new-age fans don’t follow teams in the traditional way; they follow the players themselves

Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis reviewed

The day the president met the King

They knew they were right even when they were wrong

I’m falling out with my friend over the election fraud nonsense