It has taken a brutal murder by a barbarous people of the Middle Ages to remind us that it is long past time that America, a country with a notorious bad batting average for picking its enemies
Vol.105.7: FLAKEY JUSTICE
Full disclosure: like Brett Cavanaugh I am also an alumnus of a Jesuit high school, although we were not a prissy rich-boy boarding school that produced guys who sexually-assaulted women (maybe
Vol.105.6: The Funeral Oration as Political Event
In a strange way today’s funeral orations delivered by the likes of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Miss Lindsey Graham, and even, can you believe it, by unindicted war criminal Henry Kissinger
Vol.105.5: ARE WE NAZIS YET?
Ja, ja!, we made it! Ooom-pah, Ooom-pah, Ooom-pah!
Ilse Koch, the notorious Nazi “Bitch of Buchenwald” concentration
Vol.105.4: THE LONELY ROADS; Reflections on Anthony Bourdain
The obit/tributes to Anthony Bourdain continue to pour in. As a former tour guide, independent traveler and resident abroad it is almost reflexive to draw some contrasts with our different “styles”
Vol 105.3: Everything Happens for a Reason: An Interview with Novelist Sebastian Gerard
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Ba Feng Ku, Dragon City Journal Senior Correspondent
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I interviewed Sebastian Gerard in Hong Kong about his forthcoming work of fiction, his third, The River Dragon’s Daughters
Vol.105.2: Mi Tu, Too Part 2
I recently completed a novel set in China around the lives of four Chinese women over most of the 20thcentury. Readers of these pages will be hearing about it soon enough, but sneaky
Vol.105.1: COME SUNDAY, HALLELUJAH, BROTHER [MR]
Come Sunday (20I8), opens with an inflight airplane scene which the Rev. Bishop Carlton Pearson engages a woman seatmate in conversation that leads to his apparently obsessive need
Vol.104.7: DON’T DO IT, ROCKET BOY
Don’t know how clever a political actor Kim Jong un is. Not much is known about him beyond his youth and goofy haircut. But this past Easter he met with CIA director Mike Pompeo on some
Vol.104.5: IT’S RESURRECTION TIME, AGAIN
As I write this there are Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem thronging the Via Dolorosa, some of them lugging wooden crosses as their Savior reputedly did long ago, reliving his “stations of the
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