Ben Moser is a fool. He thinks that buildings in Gaza that have the word ‘School’ or ‘Hospital’ on them are actually schools or hospitals versus weapons depots or militant barracks. Ignore him. He is voting for Kamala Harris which is further proof that he’s a fool.
Perhaps the stigma and bigotry Oliver Sacks experienced for being gay nurtured his empathy towards those who also experienced prejudice, marginalization?
I have read Haywire Brooke hayward's book & must say she is a survivor she lost her Mother & Sister Bridget to suicide & a few years ago her brother Bill shot himself & died how did she manage to be so normal with a family riddled with mental illness!!
Elinor Glyn, didn't invent the "IT" girl she observed and highlighted something that has been around for a long time. Some people have charisma. This applies to males and females. The aspect Elinor Glyn highlighted was sexual charisma. The science behind why some people have sexual charisma is explained in the recently published book "Why Some People are not Attracted to Members of the Opposite Sex" by John Hibbert. The explanation is in Chapter 4 "Sexual Charisma" but the whole book should be read to understand Chapter 4.
Very nice remembrance and discussion of one of the greatest of all American writers. Unfortunate that Atlas sounds like an adult from Peanuts. Can't believe no one did anything about his microphone or the way he was speaking into it to make him at least slightly easier to understand
It was mined in Kollur of south India. Golconda is not a place name (nor of a mine) but in this context refers to the Muslim rulers of the Telugu country…even Dalrymple can be in error. The right place for the Kohinoor is in a museum in Hyderabad.
Interesting discussion, and I love how they talked about Sonny's love of the American Songbook.Monk,among many others,also had that same love for Irving Berlin and some of the other great songwriters of the era.As Archie Shepp and Jimmy Heath said,"We listened to the same radio"
Just Marvellous ! Thank you! I’m so grateful to W.Darlymple and other illustrious and honest historians of his ilk retelling historical truths that we should know. I love the Empire podcast on Spotify hosted by the knowledgeable and entertaining Anita Anand and William Darlymple.
Humphrey opined in the middle 1960s: “If we won’t fight the Communists in Saigon, we may have to fight them in Honolulu or San Francisco.” George McGovern, in an interview not long before he died, said that Humphrey had told him that he -- Humphrey -- genuinely supported our involvement in Vietnam.
Since the end of WW2, the Presidents and congresses of my country, the USA, have behaved as aggressive war criminals worldwide. The rulers of my country, an imperial, militarized oligarchy, have replaced democratic, legally elected governments with ruthless dictators in, for example, Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Chile (1972), and in many other countries. It has sent arms to regimes so that they could exterminate their own native populations: Indonesia under Sukarno, and many regimes in Central America. It has committed aggression in many countries, e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. The list of USA's war crimes is too long for me to offer here. The USA is now engaged in a war against Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy. That war began in 2014, when the neutral government of Ukraine was toppled by a USA coup in favor of a fascist regime in Kiev that would sacrifice Ukrainian lives to try to weaken Russia. I now realize, as I did not at the time Klaus Fuchs was discovered to be an "atomic spy", that if the USA had been the world's only nuclear power, it would have been even more aggressive than it has been.
