Homosexuality in Dracula by Bram Stoker

It took me a long time to understand that my fascination with vampires resulted from elements of homosexuality in Dracula, which I first encountered at the movies as a kid.   While doing research for Medicine For The Blues trilogy, I read a lot of footnotes and...

Mayday! Mayday! – Wake Up, America!

Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix “Mayday! Mayday!” America and its democracy are in need of help. “Mayday!” as a distress signal was first used in 1923, when air traffic between England and France increased over the English Channel. Communications were...

Trump & Hitler: abused children

  Mary Trump’s book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man (2020) makes it clear that Donald Trump was emotionally abused by his father. Martin Pengelly’s review of this book [bold type indicates reference below] points...