December 9, 2021

The Red Pyramid Sets Its Baleful Eye on Us

"Tell me who Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was," Yura, a character in Vladimir Sorokin's short story "The Red Pyramid," asks a man who mysteriously appears at a train station.  The stranger responds, "The man who called...

April 18, 2020

Disaster or Mass Hysteria? Depends on Who’s Saying It

Just as climate change finds itself at the center of the left/right divide, so today, coverage of COVID-19 -- both in major and minor news networks --points to a similar fissure in American perceptions of this worldwide pandemic. Those on the ideolog...