Category: Humor

In the Remains of the Diocletian Baths

Flashback: Michael Brenner envisions a conversation among four pundits of the imperium during the calamitous sack of Rome by Alaric’s Visigoths with a veiled reference to Trump’s America.

The Guardian’s ‘Anti-Semitism’ Incident

With the row over its cartoon, the newspaper that helped oust Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party has briefly found that what you sow, you can reap, writes Jonathan Cook.

Jerks

Michael Brenner explains why he will abstain from any further writing on the subjects of Ukraine and U.S. relations with Russia, China or the Solomon Islands. 

FILM REVIEW: ‘War on the Dnieper’

The moral: nothing is as dangerous as a dim leader convinced of his cleverness by schemers selling nostrums that promise to etch his name in the history books forever, writes Michael Brenner.