Day: April 16, 2023

To Cancel or Not to Cancel?

[A TV reporter]  wanted to know how I came to terms with a Jew-hater like Richard Wagner.  I replied spontaneously: ‘There were, and there are, many fine people on earth, but none of them has…

One Reader May Suffice

Any author, [Marcel] Proust wrote Jaloux, should be happy to “write for a single, exquisite reader like you,” and he added a Proustian analogy comparing Jaloux’s contact with his book to pollen intended for “a…

Up to Me (and Us)

There is only one way to improve ourselves, and that is by some of us setting an example which the others may pick up and imitate till the new fashion spreads from east to west….