a crank’s progress

Untitled (Self-Portrait) Originally uploaded by escapetonewyork. One of my Flickr contacts was accepted into the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. “I should remain humble and say that being accepted is all I could hope for, but please may I have the $25,000 prize and commission from [...]

It was a brutal year for the conservative movement, which at long last came crashing down after dominating American politics for nearly 30 years. One small consolation for at least some leading thinkers on the right is that they began to demonstrate perceptiveness that by and large eluded them in preceding years. Here are the [...]