by David Isle. We remember Oscar Wilde today mainly through his epigrams. Wilde was a master of this medium, and his writing is dotted with one- and two-liners that have been lifted and circulate...
by David Isle. You may remember that there was a football game a couple of Sundays ago that ended in dramatic fashion. As the clock ticked down to zero and players and media spilled onto the fiel...
by David Isle. What grey flannel pants are to winter, off-white linen and cotton pants are to summer. You can wear them every day of the season without ever regretting it. This versatility is one...
by David Isle. Peter Plotnicki is one of those lucky souls who has taken a passion and turned it into a career. Always an avid collector of vintage items, Peter has taken over a vintage company, ...
by David Isle. Recently a bunch of world leaders had a big sleepover in Sicily, which resulted in the above photograph of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macr...
by David Isle. Economist Tyler Cowen’s recent book The Complacent Class describes, and at times laments, stasis in American life. Among a litany of symptoms, he includes this trenchant observatio...
by David Isle. Friends, the time is growing near when “have-nots” become “have-knots.” I refer, of course, to summer wedding season. The ultimate transitional season. After dispensing with the st...
by David Isle. I know of few restaurants in the world where a single meal is worth a plane trip. But Noir in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam is one of them. The reason is not so much the food itself - ...