Mr. Spectator

This blog takes its name from the editorial pseudonym of seventeenth century essayist and playwright Joseph Addison (1672-1719). He was an ...

Back in 270 BCE, an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician named Aristarchus of Samos had the crazy idea that the sun was actually bigge...

In 1921, a thirty-five-year-old British boarding school teacher named George Mallory decided that he wanted a change in scenery, so he joine...

The other day, I saw a pickup truck with a decal of an American flag and a bald eagle emblazoned across the rear window, and I thought to my...

Imagine if Don Draper from Mad Men accidentally fell into a wormhole in the space/time continuum, transporting him to the real world in the...