If you are looking for a silly old movie to wile away an evening without thinking too much, you could do worse than the 1937 John Cromwell film The Prisoner of Zenda. This is a story that takes place in one of these made up...
Author: Erik Loomis
I appreciated Margaret Renkl's ode to the university press. That's not so much because of the academic writing that gets published at university presses, which is so key to all.
Time to talk truth about giving your hard-earned money to political candidates: In 2020, Jamie Harrison burned $130 MILLION and got 44.2% of the vote in South Carolina's Senate race..
This is the grave of Cassius Clay. Born in 1810 to extreme wealth in Madison County, Kentucky, Clay grew up with lots of slaves and around the overtly masculine racehorse culture of the antebellum elite. His cousin was Henry Clay, just as one example. Clay...
There's no reason to explain Rashomon, which I watched last night for the fifth or sixth time. So let's talk about one somewhat controversial aspect of the film--the acting. The.
Let's not forget Matt Yglesias' call to throw trans people under the bus for political gains last month. So to tempt voters away from literal fascism, have they been given.
There is just so, so much more child labor in this nation than most Americans realize. We are hearing about it a little more now because a Biden Department of Labor is actually looking into it, but this is just the tip of the iceberg....
Janet Yellen is completely right about the evils of the debt ceiling issue, much more so than Biden. It should simply be abolished. The entire global economy is at the.
This is the grave of Henry Weinhard. Born in 1830 in the Kingdom of Württemberg, which is today the southwestern corner of Germany, Weinhard went into the brewing trade at.
In the lead-up to my time in Japan this summer, I committed myself to reading a bunch of Japanese history. Not so much about the war. I don't find war interesting, as I've made plenty clear around here. I'd rather read about the 1923 Great...
I was unfamiliar with the Wabanaki bassist Mali Obomsawin but I saw she was playing with some of my favorite contemporary jazz musicians--the trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum and the drummer.
While we are focusing on the elections (for good reasons of course), the world continues to burn. Will the US ever do anything useful in fighting climate change? Biden appeared.