July 20th, 2010
22 minutes of Australian radio listening pleasure
My erudite co-author Gerald was recently interviewed on the popular Australian radio show Open House, which was broadcast this past Sunday in the Antipodes. For a brief respite from the cut-and-thrust of your daily life, we urge you to sit back, relax and enjoy the repartee here (click “listen”) or else download the podcast from [...]
July 14th, 2010
Put Out More Flags
Today is Bastille Day, the annual national commemoration of the 1789 event during the French Revolution in which, so republican lore tells us, the political prisoners of the cruel and wayward ancien régime were liberated by a freedom-hungry mob. Never mind that the Bastille only held seven inmates — four forgers, two lunatics, and an [...]
