A Commonplace Blog For Greedy Capitalist Bastards

We are beyond the mercy of critical lucidity and valuable scholarship. The nature of bingeing is to commit to the frenzy without any hope o...

"Treaties are like young girls and roses. They last as long as they last."

Even before the rise of Donald Trump, Aaron Sorkin claimed that “no predictor of the future - not even Orwell - has ever been as right as C...

Between 2013 and 2015 it built more than 3000 acres of new land in the South China Sea by occupying and expanding shoals and refs just off ...

“Just consider the following three effects of a sudden Brexit. First, the eurozone remains dependent on the City of London for financial s...

He doubtless justifies to himself his work for Kazakhstan's Nursultan Nazarbayev, whose regime has been strongly condemned by human rig...

The Rising acquired its imaginative potency not in spite of its small scale but precisely because of it.  It's power lay in its manufac...