In 1939, the reprehensible Martin Dies, chair of the House Un-American Activities Committee, invited one Leon Trotsky to testify before his committee on the evils of Joseph Stalin (PDF in link). Trotsky was happy to do so, although many communists and socialists were outraged and...
Author: Erik Loomis
I've always dreamed of starting a grassroots campaign for Toronto Blue Jays reliever Steve Delabar for one reason or another. And now I have my chance. Of course, fans get.
Doing a bit of travel writing on my month in Mexico for RI Future. Put up my first entry today on the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968 and the perils of.
In comments to the Pinochet post, somethingblue points us to the University of Denver honoring George W. Bush for "improving the human condition." Not surprisingly, some people at the university have just a slight disagreement with this choice. Not former Bush hack Christopher Hill of...
An amazing set of daguerreotypes and other early photographic images of the last American Revolution veterans.
The Wall Street Journal, openly pining for Augusto Pinochet: Mr. Obama also requested a review of U.S. aid to Egypt, but cutting that off now would be a mistake. Unpopular.
This one goes out to all of you who say that MOOCs are totally the equal of a real lecture class in terms of education quality: Michigan professor Gautam Kaul is teaching the Introduction to Finance MOOC on Coursera. In a July 2 email to...
I'm in Oaxaca, Mexico for the month so I shouldn't care about the crazy weather in the United States so far this summer (the high today here was 75). But.
Typical that a song as bad as the Star-Spangled Banner would have a neo-Confederate history. The section that favored the “Banner” was the South. By the 1920s when the newly.
Although I was under the impression that Pennsylvania had the stupidest liquor laws in the country, it turns out that Indiana is pretty competitive as well (although at least you can buy a freaking 6-pack in the Hoosier State). Of course, every stupid restrictive liquor...
Last month, I attended a session dedicated to the Chicago Teachers Union struggle at the Labor and Working Class History Association conference in New York. A couple of members of.
And by this travesty I mean the threat of Steven Spielberg directing a remake of The Grapes of Wrath, a movie I would like to think exactly 0 people would.