Doncha think: The former editor at the New York Review of Books says he stands by his decision to publish a controversial essay by former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi. In a piece published Thursday
Me, to a friend a couple of days ago: Any minute now, someone will claim that Kavanaugh has an evil twin. Ha ha. Washington Post, today: Is there a Kavanaugh doppelganger? Parker begins by noting that
Here’s a story that touches on one the most egregious howlers Brett Kavanaugh told at his Judiciary Committee hearings: A few years ago, as she was prepping to interview for a judicial clerkship
This is the grave of the traitor Fitzhugh Lee. Born in 1835 in Claremont, Virginia, Lee was part of the famous elite Lee family that included the traitor general Robert E. Lee and Harry Lighthorse Lee
The historian Mary Mendoza has a good piece on how there is often more attention to the diversity of plants and wildlife on the border than diversity of people and suggests how we might think about th
Scott has posted a couple of things referencing John Hockenberry’s appalling Harper’s essay (Breaking news: Ian Buruma’s decision to let serial sexual abuser Jian Ghomeshi publish a
#TheStupidestPresidentEver thinks he has found the silver lining to hurricanes: Free stuff! Trump crossed the street to a small brick house, where he stopped to greet an older man in the T-shirt. Behi
Our history is all around us and yet most of us don’t know it because there is no way to know it. Especially for much of our problematic history, there aren’t sites of memorialization or r