This is the grave of Dwight Davis. Born in 1879 in St. Louis, Davis grew up rich. His grandfather had been mayor back in the 1850s and the family remained local elites. Davis was super into tennis. He became a local champion at the time...
Author: Erik Loomis
I recently watched the fascinating new Christopher Roth documentary, Europe Endless 1: The Specter of Eurocommunism. This is the first part of a planned trilogy that celebrates the greatest values.
Dave Zirin has an interesting essay that not only revisits the commonly held comparisons between The Sopranos and Donald Trump, but goes quite a bit deeper into the issue, including.
This is the grave of King Edward VI of England, a not so spooky Halloween grave unless you consider the state of my shoes standing on this, which are now the new Hokas, but the ancient soiled white Adidas at the bottom. Does it seem...
We know that Trump is no real friend of the working class, despite the rhetoric that too many fall for. But there's the real details here that drive you crazy..
As always, when conservatives talk about liberal professors bringing ideology into the college classroom, it is 100% pure projection. Check this out from the "University of Austin," i.e. Bari Weiss'.
JD Vance, married to an Indian immigrant, calls for the politics of the 1924 Immigration Act and the ethnic cleansing of America: Vice President JD Vance advocated a slowdown in legal immigration Wednesday, saying, “We have to get the overall numbers way, way down." Vance...
This is the grave of Charles Dickens. Lot to say here, so I will make this kind of general and people can work it out in comments. Dickens was born.
Yep, Biden really had his pulse on the nation--depoliticizing everything through having Merrick Garland as his AG was a real winner! Acting on a mix of principle and caution, Justice.
This is the grave of Rudyard Kipling. Born in 1865 in Bombay, India, Kipling grew up in the colonialism of 19th century Britain. His parents were less active imperialists than others--they were in India because his father was hired as an art professor at a...
I generally hate navel gazing, but the grave series hitting 2,000 posts is kind of a moment to think about this project. I started this as what I considered the.
For this very special grave post, I am going to profile one of the greats. This is the grave of Frank Little. Like a couple of other recent posts, I.