The Contrarian Progressive

For reasons too long to explain I found myself at Hong Kong Airport en route to Ho Chi Minh City just before Christmas. After submitting mys...

17 December was the anniversary of Mohamed Bouazizi's death. He was the Tunisian vegetable vendor who set himself on fire and who trigg...

I discovered Graydon Carter through Spy Magazine . It was the first publication in English that I thought was consistently funny and clever...

My long time readers will remember that, for almost six months now, I have been maintaining that the Eurozone crisis was an artificial one,...

I stumbled upon a news items the other day. Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu called a snap leadership election within Likud. The Liku...

When people discover your humble soap box on the Internet, they continue to read it from that moment onwards, but they rarely go back to see...

For some reason, I am convinced that my tiny readership would not require a link for the title. The title is a propos because a couple of...