Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Tim Russert. The most overrated media figure of the last half-century, Russert, as he would tell you over and over and over again in an.
Annie Lowrey has a pretty good essay on the housing shortage. She rightfully makes the point that the biggest issue is a lack of new building. I can certainly accept.
A lot of the all-time great films are pretty problematic--Birth of a Nation, The Searchers, Manhattan, we could go on. To say the least, values change. How do we deal.
This week's musical highlight for me was seeing Patterson Hood play City Winery in Boston. This is exactly two weeks after his Drive By Truckers bandmate Mike Cooley played there.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - SEPTEMBER 13: Workers service the tracks at the Metra/BNSF railroad yard outside of downtown on September 13, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Metra, the largest rail service carrying.
This is the grave of Carleton Beals. Born in 1893 in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, Beals came from an interesting background. His father was Carrie Nation's stepson. I wonder what that.
For our latest podcast, we are happy to have spoken to Christina Heatherton of Trinity College about her brand new book Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican.
This is the grave of Rachel Carson. Born in 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Carson grew up outside of Pittsburgh, reading stories about animals and falling in love with the natural.