Martha Jones, one of our finest historians of the Black freedom struggle, has a powerful essay on trying to find evidence about the life of Abigail, the slave of John Jay, who attempted to escape while he was in Paris negotiating the end of the...
Month: November 2021
I haven't seen any of the new Peter Jackson Beatles documentary, but this clip is pretty amazing. It's from a January 7, 1969 studio session, that starts with Paul McCartney.
The latest white liberal fad for meaningless diversity is the land acknowledgement. Theoretically, this is a good thing. Remembering that this land was stolen from Native peoples is in fact.
This is the grave of Grover Washington. Born in 1943 in Buffalo, Washington grew up in a musical household. His mother was a church organist and his father played the saxophone. Young Grover would also learn to play the saxophone. His father made sure of...
E.J. Dionne is good on the eternal stupidity of making "hypocrisy" arguments to dodge arguments on the merits: But beyond the fact that the retreat to procedural arguments dodges the.
Back in September, I developed a simple model to predict how many more Americans would die from COVID-19. Over this long weekend, I updated the model with numbers from the.
Erik requested that one of the most ridiculous contracts in recent NFL history be the subject of this week's thread, and I am happy to oblige: In the NFL, it's both easy and dangerous to lose track of time and money.This is Taysom Hill's fifth...
Daniel Desrocher has an excellent multi-part series in the Herald Leader about living legacies of the Civil War in Kentucky, framed against contemporary politics. Politics are about power — how.
One thing I've long thought football teams should do is to have somebody on the sidelines whose only job is to tell the head coach what to do in terms.
This is the grave of Norma Miller. Born in 1919 in Harlem, MIller was the daughter of a Barbadian immigrant shipyard worker and a mother who worked as a house cleaner. Her father died before she was born and her mother raised her as a...
It's tie to shut down all British dudes named "Piers" until we can figure out what the hell is going on: Yes, the "new ideology" of compulsory vaccination, which has.
I'm not sure how the Biden administration can survive this scandal: Now that I know that Kamala Harris bought a nice thing for her kitchen with her own money, I.