Not to the two warmongering gamesters who got the economics version, of course, but to British playwright and poet Harold Pinter. While his plays are quite something, and he’s a pal of Taki’s too, it’s Pinter’s war poetry I most appreciate. I’m buttressed in my judgment by the angry warocons. How dare the Swedes give the prize to a man critical of US foreign policy? To Guantanamo with him. To understand the upset, read Pinter’s acceptance speech for the Owen Prize: “This is a true honour. Wilfred Owen was a great poet. He articulated the tragedy, the horror and indeed … Continue reading A Well-Deserved Nobel Prize