The Bird Cage

With the whole of our realm under lockdown due to a sickness that is spreading, I found myself at last with time enough to devote to the...

The essay that was previously posted here can now be found at Quillette . I removed it under agreement with Quillette, which wanted ...

I've got a story to tell—a story about a man who was a key part of telling so many stories to so many people. I think...

Not so long ago, as happens, I was in a Facebook debate about something I neither knew much nor cared much about. I won’t say wit...