This month's Atlantic includes an interesting piece by Christopher Hitchens on Edward Said's Orientalism, which is being re-released with an updated introduction. As Hitchens points...

One knows not to question the wisdom of the Delphic seers, those voices of prescience whose cryptic counsels were so poorly interpreted by their clientele....

Second instalment of an extended allegorical cricketing yarn, begun as a comment to the post Australia's worst government?: Well we've just come back from drinks,...