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Baileys Beach Club The latest controversy over U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s association with the elite, WASPy Bailey’s Beach Club, in Newport, has gone viral after being launched by GoLocal. (I prefer the silly-sounding real name of the club – the Spouting Rock Beach Association.)  His wife is a member.   I don’t care much about politicians’ associations in their private life; it’s their public-policy positions that primarily interest me. But I suppose that any story about Newpo...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Mike Gold, ‘Jews Without Money’ author, gets overdue recognition in new bio May 18, 2021 12:25 PM CDT By John Pietaro Right: Mike Gold. Left top: A 1930s march or revolutionary artists affiliated with the John Reed Club. Left bottom: Assorted New Masses covers. In the panthe...

May 01, 2021, 10:27 IST International Labour Day or May Day is celebrated on May 1 every year in many parts of the world. On this day, the achievements of labourers in many countries including India, and their contribution to the development of the country are honoured. This day is a holiday in many countries of the world. On this occasion, people associated with trade unions organize rallies and meetings and also raise voices for their rights. However, because of the pandemic, such even...

Labour Day 2021: Why Do We Celebrate It? Popularly known as May Day, the day is observed in countries such as India, Cuba and China among other countries. Credit: Forbes   |  1 May 2021 8:09 AM GMT International Labour Day 2021 or May Day is celebrated by labourers and encourages them to be aware of their rights on the first of every May, i.e. May 1. International Labour Day on May 1 is a public holiday in many countries. Popularly known as May Day, the day is observed in countries such as...

Robert Dessaix is one of the great Australian writers. His travel books are masterpieces of warm and inclusive observation. His 2008 book Arabesques is, like the works of the great Greek travel writer Pausanias, a journey through places visited by earlier heroes. Not heroes I suppose, but perhaps giants like the literary giants Oscar Wilde and Andre Gide. These two writers visited Algeria in the 1890s, and it was there that Wilde apparently corrupted Gide into having sex with a young boy. The ...

JAMES HOGG defies categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots and English. Labelled the Ettrick Shepherd, the former Borders farmhand, whose life spanned the 18th and 19th centuries, befriended many of the great writers of his day, including Walter Scott, John Galt and Allan Cunningham. Even though he was celebrated off and on in his own lifetime, some details of the author’s life remain unclear. Record...

Georgia Drakaki The cultural platform GREECE IN USA is a global organization that promotes Greek culture abroad and promotes international cultural cooperation. Founded in New York by the internationally renowned Greek adjunct professor CUNY Sozita Goudouna, one of America’s most prominent Greek curators. GREECE IN USA makes an impressive opening amid a pandemic, launching, with the support of the Greek Ministry of Culture, the group exhibition “The Right to Silence?” / “The Right to Si...

Oscar Wilde in the 1880s. Photo: wikipedia SINGAPORE, Jan 29 2021 - So, who or what was Oscar Fingal Flahertie Wills Wilde? Was he a poet, a prose-smith, a playwright, a classicist, a raconteur, a poseur, an aphorist, or simply a sensation for his, or may be for all, times? He was all of those, and much else besides. He was a lord of language, known for his bitingly witty dialogue and epigrammatic banter, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation. To London’s Victorian society he was both ...

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/ Caroline Culler In light of the importance of the annual election for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers—and heightened interest stemming from last year’s vigorously contested results and the possibility of a similar contest this year— Harvard Magazine is providing enhanced coverage. We asked each candidate presented by the HAA nominating committee and each member of the Harvard Forward slate seeking a place on the ballot by petition to answ...

Imagine With all the concentrated destruction of the politically inconvenient and declared obsolete historical past of America (and Western Civilization in general) occurring, it is perhaps appropriate to take another look at this LRC column I wrote on the occasion of the death of the Communist terrorist Nelson Mandela. The internationally acclaimed and beloved John Lennon song I discussed, Imagine, will no doubt be aggressively put forth by progressives to replace our current antiquated, irre...