ON THIS DAY: The USS Indianapolis sunk
July 30, 2022
The USS Indianapolis shark story is part legend, but also mostly true. … More ON THIS DAY: The USS Indianapolis sunk
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The Country You Deserve
February 19, 2022
From Iraq to Canada, people get the government their culture demands. … More The Country You Deserve
TODAY IN DECLINE: Carrier Edition
November 12, 2021
Are we culturally forgetting how to do basic things, like put out fires? … More TODAY IN DECLINE: Carrier Edition
Sunday Moring at the Movies: Reds
September 25, 2021
Some artists are so good that they undermine their own message. … More Sunday Moring at the Movies: Reds
SUNDAY ESSAY: A Crisis of Legitimacy
May 29, 2021
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 THIS DAY: President Lincoln shot and killed in a tough day for the Booth family
April 15, 2021
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
What To Make Of Bob Lazar
July 9, 2019
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
Affluence Disorders; What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker
September 2, 2018
New words and phrases enter our lexicon regularly, often in response to new and highly specific inventions and behaviors, such as ‘social media’ or ‘sexting.’ The big picture still tends to be summarized by the older concepts that capture unchanging basic human impulses, words and phrases like ‘animal spirits’ or ‘ennui.’ The new phrase that … More Affluence Disorders; What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker
Sunday Morning at the Movies: Risky Business
August 26, 2018
There is a saying that the best predictor of the future is the past, which is true enough most of the time. Tomorrow is likely to be very much like today and even yesterday and then it isn’t. Change can come fast or slow; either so slowly you don’t notice it or so quickly that … More Sunday Morning at the Movies: Risky Business
Utopia 14
July 31, 2017
No fate but what you make… … More Utopia 14
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