Skeptophilia

What strikes me about the last ten years isn't just the slow slide into fascism, the grift, the corruption, the attempted codification i...

I picked up a copy of John Julius Norwich's A Short History of Byzantium  (at almost four hundred pages, it's only short by comparis...

Thomas Paine said, "He who would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty h...

I remember reacting with honest bafflement when Barack Obama was running for his first term as president in 2008, and one of the criticisms ...

Something that really grinds my gears is how quick people can be to trumpet their own ignorance, seemingly with pride. I recall being in a s...

In my novel Sephirot , the main character, an ordinary guy named Duncan Kyle, finds himself lost in an interlocking maze of worlds, each of ...

Ever heard the story of Lieutenant Kijé ? He's the subject of a 1927 comic film made in the Soviet Union.  Set in the time of Tsar Paul ...

H. P. Lovecraft's novel The Lurker at the Threshold  is, like much of his work, uneven.  At its best, it's atmospheric as hell, and ...