Commentary

In the 1992 novel The Queen and I, Sue Townsend imagines a future where the monarchy is abolished and the royals are forced...

The science fiction genre cannot come into existence until scientific and technological progress has reached a certain point. While we can tell stories...

Argentinian President Javier Milei recently gifted Elon Musk a literal chainsaw to symbolically aid in the destruction of public institutions designed to help...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIqXprCArdo Miles Davis did­n’t put out any stu­dio albums from 1973 until the mid­dle of 1981. In explain­ing the rea­sons for this lacu­na in...

Hōshi, a tra­di­tion­al Japan­ese inn in Komat­su, Japan, holds the dis­tinc­tion of being the sec­ond old­est hotel in the world—and “the old­est still...

Let’s time trav­el back to Leningrad (aka St. Peters­burg) in 1924. That’s when an uncon­ven­tion­al chess match was played by Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabi­novich,...

by Leonie B. Jackson 23rd April 2025 President Trump kicked off his second term in office with a flurry of Executive Orders geared towards his key...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmvxRMYxlhE Most tourists in Rome put the Colos­se­um at the top of their to-see list. (My own sis­ter-in-law, soon to head out on her...