The problem with Jacobin is basically a problem of editorship. At its best, it does great work. I am real proud of my small part of the history of the CIO podcast they are hosting, for instance. When you have serious historians in charge of...
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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.
This is the grave of Edward Morse. Born in Portland, Maine in 1838, Morse must have had a somewhat difficult childhood. His father was a strict Calvinist and his mother.
Friends, Japan has a problem. Its population isn't drinking enough anymore. And the nation is trying to do something about it: Young people turning away from alcohol is generally welcomed as a positive trend. But it’s bad news both for booze companies, and governments that...
Being in Japan for a month was like being on a different planet, not a different country, at least when it comes to Covid. Masking inside is 100%, effectively. Maybe.
This is a vending machine in Kyoto selling....cactus. It could be late on Saturday. You've had a few drinks. You just feel the need for some drought tolerant plants to.
Convenience stores in the U.S. are horrible. Even the "healthy" part of them, which I admit have gotten a little bit better in the last decade, might mean some old bananas, red "delicious" apples, plastic-like string cheese, and maybe some hummus and pretzels. In Japan.....well,...
I think Queen is one of the biggest bullshit bands in the history of rock and roll, just complete overwrought garbage. But if I am going to do my one-man.
Since I'm in Tokyo and have major jet lag, let's watch a film about the nation. It's 1956. You are the U.S. military. Your troops are....probably not very well-informed about.
Back in 2020, I was selected to be a visiting scholar in Japan as part of the Organization of American Historians-Japanese Association of American Studies collaboration. They select two American scholars each year to go and give a bunch of talks to various groups at...
This building is amazing and an object lesson in how not maintaining our modernist masterpieces are going to lead them to all fall apart very soon. Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower,.
ARLINGTON, TX - NOVEMBER 21: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones watches as the Cowboys take on the Detroit Lions at Cowboys Stadium on November 21, 2010 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo.