The Sound Of Silence — American Gods — The Hunger Games
Three phenomenal pieces of art and entertainment linked through their reference to gods and deities […]
Going Solo – Roald Dahl
I am writing this forty-five years afterwards, but I still retain an absolutely clear picture of Khalkis and how it looked from a few thousand […]
Future Tense – Sanctuary
‘The seeds we plant’ […]
The Greeks Get In Touch With Their Deep-Rooted Myths
The last two hundred years have been more slide than ascent. Let’s see if the trend holds, or if the process averages out with a […]
My Dinner With Andre’s Darkly Inspirational Message
The prospect of us living in a new dark age suddenly comes to light […]
Making Contact
‘The more we’re forced to look at someone else’s perspective, like on a television, instead of our own, the less perspective we have on the […]
Christopher Hitchens’ Hammer Blow To Dogmatic Religion
An excoriating thesis on the malignant nature of organized religions that center on the apocalypse […]
Machiavellian Mitch McConnell
Pity this man works for the wrong side of history […]
The Admirable And Sad And Complex Notion Of Greek Philotimo
Over the past ten years I have been systematically grilling, excoriating and thrashing Greece, Cyprus, and the modern Greek spirit where appropriate, and I have been […]
Sanders v Mulvaney: Between A Rock And A Hard Place
I’m not a fan of the Bernie Sanders kind of politics and economics. They never worked, and never will. But the more absurd this Trump/GOP […]