We interrupt this regularly scheduled Dead Horses in American History blogging to bring you 1980 in one image: Willie Nelson on a golf course, jingoism, the Cold War, the last days of the Carter Administration, those shorts--really what's missing?
olympics
I suppose there aren't a whole lot of places in Russia where horrible things haven't happened. But still: History has largely been kind to Alexander II, the Russian czar who.
I'm not particularly comfortable with the idea of boycotting the Winter Olympics in Russia because of the nation's anti-gay laws. Mostly, I don't think it's fair to athletes to be.
Nick Sarantakes of the Naval War College and I talked Olympic politics on the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements. Here we talk about the difference that a Cold War makes:
The fact that a young sportswriter named Brent Musberger called Tommie Smith and John Carlos "a pair of black skinned stormtroopers" after they raised the black power fist at the.
I briefly flirted with writing about this, but what's the point? By all accounts, including that of the PSNI, the UVF started it, and the "dissident Republicans" shot back. Whatever..
No, I'm not discussing a Canadian perspective on the ignominy of losing to an inferior team, in their national sport, during the Olympics, in Canada. Though that must still sting a little, even following their destruction of the Russians and concomitant return to their rightful...
Last week, Ban Ki-Moon made his standard plea for an Olympic Truce during the XXI Olympic Winter Games from Feb. 12 to Feb. 28 February and the X Winter Paralympic.
Mr. Trend has an outstanding post that explains what the selection of Rio means in the wider arc of Brazilian history. With all due respect, however, it's obvious that Trend.
One of the strangest aspects of the moral panic over fat in our culture is the bizarre concept that having a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is "normal." It certainly isn't normal in the standard statistical sense of the word (only about a third of...
Even if the US manages to beat out China for the most medals this year, I expect that China pretty much has a lock on the medal count for the.