Sam Smith thinks jazz is cooler and cheaper than war. He describes an instance of enlightened American foreign policy known as the Jazz Ambassadors program. During the 1950s, the State Department sent a variety of musicians abroad to show the world something of America:
In 1958, (Dave) Brubeck visited 12 countries, including Poland, Turkey, East [...]
William Kowalski at the Globe & Mail makes the case for Fitzgerald’s Gatsby:
Gatsby the man is a complete fiction, as he admits to narrator Nick Carraway: Just as the United States was carved from the wilderness, he fashioned himself an identity as a wealthy, Oxford-educated gentleman, sustaining it through sheer determination and bravado - that [...]
On AlterNet, David Michael Green, professor of political science at Hofstra University, examines some aspects of American Foreign Policy and asks, If America Loves Peace So Much, Why Are We Always At War?
Maybe we can detect America’s dislike for war in another metric, say military spending. Oops. Turns out that’s going to be a bit [...]
I just found this on Amazon.com:
Shooting in the Dark by John Baker. A Delicious PI, Quirky cohorts, Damsel in Distress, Evil Stalker, it’s All Here.
Sam Turner has done battle with demon rum and won. Unlike other hard-boiled PIs, Sam is drinking water when that beautiful dame [...]
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