Hotel view  I'm in another hotel room, still cheap, further north this time, with an interesting view of Aberdeen's port and ships. ...

I often used to write in the mornings even 'til lunch. I'd start meaning to do half an hour over breakfast, but hours would fly past...

Chairman Mao poster, People's Republic of China, 1968 in the University of Oregon   II. Ideology It is probably in initial motivation t...

Rafael Trujillo A handbook for tyranny I want to use Vargas Llosa's ' The Feast of the Goat ' as a springboard to look at traits...

River Massacre, Haiti, Fran Afonso via Wikimedia  This is the sixth consecutive piece on tyranny inspired by the novel 'The Feast of the...