There is some evidence that Poe sporadically had more than just two drinks. What is less well known is that he had very low tolerance for alcohol and usually drank less in a year than the likes of Taki or I do in a week. Poe's posthumous reputation for chronic drunkenness originated in a ...

The number of Chinese Christians in churches approved and unapproved has been increasing exponentially. Pope Benedict's ingenious response to this situation has been a kind of Kung Fu move: At once, as he refuses to concede any ground whatsoever to the enemies of the Church, he also avoids ...

A mere seven years after Boris Yeltsin's Pink Elephants were dispossessed of Russia's nuclear football and something approximating political and economic stability began to reign in Russia, now Vladimir Putin the most intelligent, liberal and reliable head of state Russia has seen since Tsar ...

Boris Nikolayevitch Yeltsin, Russia's first democratically elected head of state, has died.   At least twice in his years of power he begged the Russian people for forgiveness for his failures.   The first time was shortly after the attempted coup in August 1991; Yeltsin said to ...