Battle of the Sexes
‘Stand Down’ Calls Into Question the Efficacy of a Gender-Integrated Military Fighting Force
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Author: Michael Washburn
Foucault’s Blender
An Account of Chillin’ in the California Desert With the Great Philosopher
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Maybe Commodus Was the Good Guy
A Look Back at Gladiator Through a 2020 Lens
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The People Are Revolting
Beware the Modern Jacobins: a Warning From Balzac
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The Repressed Was Never Gone
Reading ‘The Frog,’ by John Hawkes
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How Close Are We To Dystopia? Despite What Michael Moore Says, Not Very.
A Novel By an Avant-Garde Genius Of The 1930s Offers Clarity
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Mailer’s Fatal Flaw
By Championing a Violent Criminal, Norman Mailer Tarnished His Legacy
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Margaret Drabble’s Incoherent, Superficial, Overwrought Style of Argumentation
‘My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease’
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Robert E. Howard: Literary Artist or Pulp Hack?
There’s more to the creator of Conan the Barbarian than can be contained by sword-and-sorcery
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Vladimir Nabokov and the Struggles Within
Father’s violent end informed the master’s depictions of warring internal factions
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