Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous observation, made in his 1846 poem Ode, Inscribed to William H. Channing, that “things are in the saddle, and ride mankind,” applies with some force to the current ...
If the absolute rage being voiced by the New Popular Front (NPF) – the French Left-wing electoral alliance dominated (in words, anyway) by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed – is any indication, ...