My latest podcast is with Erin Stewart Mauldin, assistant professor of history at the University of South Florida, discussing her book Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and.
The Criterion Channel presently is streaming the 1981 Ron Mann documentary Imagine the Sound, probably the foremost film ever made on the free jazz scene. It features four greats--Cecil Taylor,.
In case climate change wasn't stressing the world's species enough, human politics and failure to govern is driving many of them to extinction. The story of the monarch butterfly, an.
I think a thread is in order on the Congressional primaries so far this year. It's been very interesting, including this week. A few thoughts. Left-wing challengers to party functionaries.
Clearly the problem in the discussion about race and education on this blog is my lack of understanding for white parents. Angry White parents gripping picket signs. People making death.
Today is the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. So tonight's film club is what exists on YouTube of the powerful, angry, and wonderful 1952 Hideo Sekigawa film Hiroshima. Paul's.
I'm not really linking to this because I think it will happen. But it is an interesting argument from the Civil War and Reconstruction historian Caroline Janney. The Lost Cause.
I have not listened to the New York Times podcast Nice White Parents, simply because it would get in the way of me listening to music 14 hours a day.
