Category: Essays

Stop This Slaughter In Palestine

I am not going to speak about the demise of the free press in India. All of us gathered here know...

Man is unique insofar as he constitutes two events. The event of his biological organism –...

Minneapolis Aeronautic missionary of the silent majorities, I jump with cat-like tread from one...

The analogy between cars and operating systems is not half bad, and so let me run with it for a...

On January 18, 1915, six months into the first world war, as all Europe was convulsed by killing...

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed...

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers,...

Now that my daily duties involved a baby, I’d simply expanded my instrumental approach to...

There is no anti-depressant quite like sea-swimming, and Holkham is where I usually go when I’m...

aka America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly As Walt Whitman gazed down the democratic vistas of...

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also...

The political union of 1707 had been preceded by a natural one over 400 million years earlier....