As a historian, microfilm is the single greatest invention in human history. You haven't lived until reading five decades of a union newspaper on microfilm. You should learn more about its history.
Month: June 2016
I was planning on writing about something else this morning, like strategies to avoid Brexit, political and constitutional dilemmas of the same, or the soul-crushing reality of being a life-long.
A year after its release and long after anyone actually bought the book, there's still a little bit of Out of Sight buzz here and there. Laura Clawson from Daily.
On the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements, I spoke with Nick Clark about the consequences of Brexit. There's also a bit on Game of Thrones at the end. Unfortunately, the video on both feeds froze. The audio is fine, though. Brexit: Where are we now?...
It's nice that Congressional Republicans tried to use the Zika funding bill for the all-important goal of reversing the ban on flying the Confederate flag in national cemeteries.
I am no Supreme Court expert, but this preview of the next term looks promising, primarily because of what the Court is not going to hear. First and most importantly.
Buddy Ryan, R.I.P. Almost certainly the greatest defensive coach in NFL history. It's not just that the mid-80s Bears have a strong claim to be the best NFL defense ever, his Eagles teams were also among the greatest defenses ever. As a head coach, he...
I have a piece at Democracy explaining why Kennedy finally agreed to put some teeth into Casey: Many state legislatures got the message and passed an increasing array of regulations,.
As a response to growing labor unrest, in 1916, major corporations decided to create the National Industrial Conference Board to undertake investigations of their own to show how much families.
Pictured: Annual performance review between Dean Tyrell of the School of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurial Synergies, and Assoc. Prof. Batty, 2034, post-CE. Oberlin College, the highly-regarded liberal arts college in Ohio (it has a world famous music school, and is also the oldest co-educational institution of higher...
Most of these posts have discussed texts that there really isn't much point for normal people to read. This post is an exception. Edward Carpenter's furious 1916 pamphlet Never Again!,.
Jeremy Corbyn chairs a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet (a meme that did the rounds yesterday) Seeing as how it's Labour, the obvious choice is to hit.