A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift As dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Ireland, Jonathan Swift saw firsthand the devastating consequences of famine on the poorer segments of the Irish population. Conditions in Ireland reached a crisis point in 1729....
A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a satirical pamphlet written and...
Larry Derfner The Jewish Week 08-16-1996 A Modest Proposal. One of the lessons learned from the unfortunate episode triggered by the Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel's recent intemperate about Reform Jewry is that there is no real forum for religious dialogue between Jews...
In The Hall Cary Moon, a trim young urban designer with a fair complexion, shaggy black hair, and a monochromatic, slightly goth wardrobe, looked a bit ill at ease as she took her place among the buttoned-down bureaucrats and besuited civil servants at...
In the 15 years during which I more or less regularly conducted a column for this newspaper, I can’t recall presuming to address issues of foreign policy more than once or twice. I suppose this is because I’ve always found the question of what kind...
The connection between Christopher Buckley, the sort of writer whose novels are invariably described as “wickedly†something or other (clever, satirical, entertaining et al.) and the folksy, friendly glass of warm milk that went by the name of E.B. White would seem to be an...
