What would you witness if you could?
Question of the week, or at least of this Monday: if you could witness anything in American history, what would you want to see? Let’s refine that slightly. Someone has …
Category: History
The Powers That Be
It’s depressing and horrifying to see big news organizations roll over and submit rather than confront the necrotic toddler in the Oval Office. Bari Weiss, CBS news head, spiking a 60 …
The 1970s: two views, poles apart
(Another repost from my own blog) As I was a teenager during the 1970s, I have a fondness for the decade irrelevant of its actual merits as an era to …
Lost in the fifties tonight
(This week will be all reprints from my blog, due to a crazy week last week. On the plus side, the foundations of our house are not about to collapse …
RIP Drew Struzan
Drew Struzan passed away on Monday after living with Alzheimer’s for several years. If you don’t know the name, you certainly know his work; Struzan illustrated a staggering percentage of the best-known and most iconic movie posters of the last 50 years.
Review: ‘Tetris: The Games People Play’
Tetris: The Games People Play is an award-winning graphic novel by Box Brown detailing the creation of the iconic video game and its convoluted path to gaming consoles. The title …
Honor and glory in a time long past
Another couple of random book reviews from my own blog. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic by Joanne Freeman shows how the political leaders of the Revolutionary …