SUNDAY ESSAY: The Crying Game and the Big Lie
In 1992, a film about gender found a way to present virtue without pretending gender is a construct … More SUNDAY ESSAY: The Crying Game and the Big Lie
In 1992, a film about gender found a way to present virtue without pretending gender is a construct … More SUNDAY ESSAY: The Crying Game and the Big Lie
Just weeks after the moon landings, the culture dominance of the Boomers was made evident at a muddy field in upstate New York. … More ON THIS DAY: Woodstock Begins
The USS Indianapolis shark story is part legend, but also mostly true. … More ON THIS DAY: The USS Indianapolis sunk
From Iraq to Canada, people get the government their culture demands. … More The Country You Deserve
Are we culturally forgetting how to do basic things, like put out fires? … More TODAY IN DECLINE: Carrier Edition
Some artists are so good that they undermine their own message. … More SUNDAY ESSAY: Art Beyond Propaganda
The United States as both a country and culture has a serious problem with the legitimacy of its governing structure and habits and values if its citizens … More SUNDAY ESSAY: A Crisis of Legitimacy
On April 15 in 1865, a disgruntled Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in the back of the head at close range with a small pistol. Unknown at the time, Booth’s older brother had saved Lincoln’s son’s life a few weeks earlier. … More ON THIS DAY: President Lincoln shot and killed in a tough day for the Booth family
Assuming that Bob Lazar is telling the truth, how many people know about alien space craft that the US federal government has in hangers in the Nevada desert? 250? 1000? The way Lazar recounts his bizarre tale, it’s a rather large number given that he says we have nine craft in our possession and that … More What To Make Of Bob Lazar
The Battle of Waterloo marked the end of the long Napoleonic Wars, and Napoleon’s defeat ushered in a 99 year period of European peace. Europe was still plagued by wars of one kind or another, but mostly, there was peace and many of the warring Houses of Europe were quelled by Queen Victoria’s long and … More 100 Years Past The Great War