Highlighting David Poff’s Update on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense “Human Sense”
I interjected this piece because I worked with David Poff as he rewrote Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" to reflect 20th Century American prose, and also pointed out a single shortcoming in Paine's thinking.
It was...
“It is French”, an Introduction for a Lifetime of Observation and Study
A few days ago I mentioned a comment used by Mark Twain, more than once I'm told, to convey a broad principle that perhaps the French are a people that cannot be trusted. My...
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia...
From a Paper War to Real War
Renewing a suggestion she made in 2021, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene once again suggested a "national divorce" this past February.
Now, I'm a fan of MTG because she sometimes calls a spade "a fritzing...
Famous Common People I Have Known, Mick Hensley
First written in 2010, my best known essay from my "Famous Common People I Have Known" series (also found individually here), I'd very much like to get published in bookshelf print format. I'd consider...