After spending the last year living in the United States, I will mercifully be whisked back to my peaceful homeland of Australia before the tumult of November’s election season begins. While I am not a US citizen, I certainly have a dog in the fight — as a green card holder, a taxpayer, the husband
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Recently, I was in search of trout, but my search resulted in more than just fish. I’ve been a fly fisherman for over a decade, but when I moved to Wisconsin a few years back, I lost easy access to my favorite haunts. So I was searching for a new stretch of untouched waters to
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Under her pen name George Elliot, Mary Anne Evans wrote these words in her 1871–72 novel Middlemarch: The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a
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In Hans Christian Andersen’s classic folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a vain monarch pays two con artists to make an expensive suit of clothes that cannot be seen by fools. When the emperor and his ministers can’t see the clothes, they don’t say anything—after all, they don’t want to be taken for fools. When the
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People often claim that differences in outcomes between two racial or ethnic groups are proof of discrimination. For example, Jews account for just 0.2 percent of the world’s population, but they make up over 20 percent of all Nobel Prize laureates. Clearly, the argument goes, there must be some conspiracy afoot. The same line of
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Do Shakespeare’s words in “Hamlet” still resonate in the Middle East? Watch our video to hear what the Bard had to say! Save this article to favorites
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