We have been subjected to lockdowns over the past year, and many have cowered at home, binging on Netflix and crisps, barely getting out...

Honesty is the best policy, it is said, but when you style yourself an intellectual who writes in earnest, and you are not only a fraud,...

How this man is thought to deserve exaltation as an intellectual, or even a person, defies reason or belief, even in today's world. Out...

It is incredibly challenging to piece together the life of someone who lived five centuries ago, about whom so little is known, and whose...

A real eye-opener, this biography. In his country of birth, this man, Bolívar, has the status of a god—infinitely brave, wise, visionary....

I once heard it said that Valerie Solanas represented the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe of radical feminism. As is the case with a...

Hagiographical account of Rosa Luxemburg's life, focusing more on her emotional and personal life. We will not find any critical passages...

While Ernest Jones' three-volume hagiography was sycophantic and defensive, with his own 1988 effort Peter Gay took derrière-licking to a...

David Crawford's Lights Out is one of a constellation of underground post-apocalyptic novels written by American authors in recent years,...

Concerning the last item in my previous blog: Fran Fullenwider was born in Harlingen, Texas on 16 November 1945. We can deduce German...

The second season of American Horror Story is set in a lunatic asylum, where just one song is offered to inmates for purposes of...

I am not a football fan, so I have ignored the 2014 FIFA World Cup. However, even I could not help but take notice when news of Brazil’s...

I roared with laughter reading William Cobbett's malicious (but incredibly satisfying and inspired) evisceration of Thomas Paine....

Aphra Behn (1640 – 1689) was a prolific dramatist, spy, and Tory propagandist of the English Restoration. After spying for Charles II in...

By pure chance, I discovered that one of my album covers, specifically the one I did in 1995 for the original Cacophonous Records'...