John Wiswell on the Web

Established in 1948 to defend our country from a world in stark peril, they are the First Family of National Security. Big Br...

We begin by acknowledging that “2” is not a real thing. It is an incomplete idea, a description, a modifier of real things. Two people ...

Prepare to have many endings spoiled for you. Sometime in adolescence we learn disdain for the things we like. We still want to wat...

I’m nearly finished with Middlemarch , and it feels like I’ve been cheating in my 900-page climb. You see, my grandmother had a serious...

The Pigs were mistrusted, distrusted and even disdained after the revolution, so their generosity was surprising to many, especially to hors...

1. Oppress someone. Needless antagonism gives you a significantly greater chance of both surviving and thriving in polemic ficti...