Trump and Vance: We Need to Finish This Drama and Undress These Actors.

Mike Magee “Chance made the situation; genius profited from it,’ says history. But what is chance? What is genius?” Leo Tolstoy from “War and Peace”, 1867. Trump and Vance wasted little time embarrassing America today. Following the game plan of “Professional Wrestling” they did their best to bully […]

A Conversation Between Leo Tolstoy and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Mike Magee The English translator of Leo Tolstoy’s epic Russian novel, “War and Peace”, Richard Pevear, writes in his introduction, “The book is set in the period of the Napoleonic wars (1805-1812) and tells the interweaving historical events of two very different families of the Russian nobility – the severe Bolonskys and the easygoing Rostovs […]