October 2021


Low Life September 14, 2021

A tale of many swimming pools

Oscar and Klynton are visiting us in Provence and a 100-degree heatwave has hit. There’s only one place to be

Jeremy Clarke

Home September 14, 2021

Modern English

The English language as written today is often nearly incomprehensible on first reading

Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Sports September 14, 2021

What’s in a name?

I pour myself a tumbler of rotgut and settle in with the names, these glorious names

Bill Kauffman

High Life September 14, 2021

The Swiss are united by a common cause — making money

They’re funny, the Swiss, known as dullards because they lack Italian fire and Spanish passion, but what would we do without them?

Taki

The Romans would not have made the same mistakes in Afghanistan

Tacitus made the Caledonian leader Calgacus remark that Romans ‘make a desert and call it peace’

Peter Jones