It is almost inconceivable that merchants would sell guns to their country’s enemies which were then turned on its forces with great effect. But it is an old story –…
Winston Churchill died on January 24, 1965. His state funeral, an extraordinary honor, took place six days later. After reading the bulletin on his death, radio station WABeatleC in New…
Paul Krugman has pointed out President Obama’s CREEP problem. Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign front was the Committee to Re-elect the President which his friends and foes alike called ‘CREEP’. Obama’s…
On this day in 1933 Sara Teasdale died. Teasdale is largely forgotten – a great injustice, I think – except by those who’ve read Ray Bradbury’s short story in The…
Hamerin’ Hank Greenberg , the American League’s Most Valuable Player of 1935 and 1940, played in 19 games in 1941 before changing his Detroit uniform for a US Army one. He returned…
I’m a character actor. In the United States, that tends to mean old people who play small parts. Here [in the UK] it means anyone who plays people not like…
In some financial circles, it has become fashionable to reject ‘negative screening’ of portfolios on social grounds. They have concluded that categorical bans on companies engaged in businesses, such as…
My father’s feelings about the general in overall command of the European theater in which he fought in World War II were best expressed in the names of the rabbits…
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