Stunning.

Cooking for one is, strangely, more difficult than cooking for two although one ingredient may suffice for one, whereas three ingredients may not be enough for two. But four pounds of, say, beef, can be […]

As I move past hundreds of homeless people on my daily commute, I wonder where their counterparts would have been, say, a century ago. And the answer seems clear. They would have been in rural […]

Found in John Merriman, Modern Europe: Volume One, From the Renaissance to the Age of Napoleon (1st edition, 1996): Literature flourishes in Italy and princes there are not ashamed to listen to, and themselves to know, […]