Tag: Koestler

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Over recent years, I’ve notice that much political communication…ranging from formal statements by politicians down to off-the-cuff social media posts by individuals..has come to consist mostly of insulting one’s opponents. While there has always been a considerable amount of this, political insult has now become so prevalent as to drive out more rational forms of […]

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This year marks the 75th anniversary of Arthur Koestler’s great novel Darkness at Noon. Preview Open

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My wife Ida and I were organizing our library and came across Arthur Koestler’s The Call Girls a novel about nasty jet setting academic frauds. At first glance I thought it was about Michael Mann and his pals but it was just prescient. Actually Mann is to the characters in Koestler’s novel what the street […]

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