Patrick Murtha's Diary

Has anyone commented on the fact that, 13 years after 9/11, we are doing a better job surveilling ordinary U.S. citizens than large aircraft...

For [Viscount Halifax] always saw passing events, not in the point of view in which they commonly appear to one who bears a part in them, bu...

At the terrific New Books Network, which offers substantial audio interviews with the authors of new books of intellectual interest, a talk ...

Martin Schneider, "The Hilariously Deadpan TV Commercials of Chris Burden" at Dangerous Minds: http://dangerousminds.net/comment...

Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statue, or a subscription of stoc...

How could you not love the fact that the website of Radio Bulgaria runs a series of English-language blog posts called Intense Literature? T...

"Soviet travel brochures from the 1930s" at The-Charnel House: http://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/01/27/soviet-travel-brochures-fro...

Michelle Goldberg, "Feminism's Toxic Twitter Wars" at The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/178140/feminisms-toxic-tw...

Karl Shuker, "Look Out for the Invisible Catfish!" at ShukerNature: http://karlshuker.blogspot.mx/2014/01/look-out-for-invisible...

David Dale, "Small-town secrets in Mystery Road," at the Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio...

Through some trick of brain wiring, I am able to keep track of a lot of things at once. So reading many books at the same time, and not hav...

The blog Die, Danger, Die, Die, Kill! looks at Andrew Leavold's documentary The Search for Weng Weng , about the Filipino dwarf actor (2...

Florencia Carabias Martin, "Threat of Plagues: Panic in the Streets (1950)" at the Journal of Medicine and Movies: http://campu...

Amaury Lovin, "Blood and Spirit: Reading beyond Orwell for a glimpse of British Burma" at Myanmar Times: http://www.mmtimes.com/...

As an American educator, I noticed too many times to count that American high school and college students tend to have a knee-jerk negative ...

Mia and Ronan Farrow's comments trashing Woody Allen and accusing him of molesting his adopted daughter Dylan have been consistent over ...