Forget the Alamo?
To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World: Fellow citizens & compatriots—I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not…
To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World: Fellow citizens & compatriots—I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not…
I am a child of the sixties. I discovered Mom’s small stash of LP’s when I went looking for something new to listen to one Winter afternoon. There was an entertainment center in the new Living Room that they had…
Politics as a practice, whatever it’s professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams (Wikipedia, Wikiquote) The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff I have toyed many times with writing a politics 101 primer. (I’ve even published…
WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME what’s the hardest part about spending so much time downrange, my answer remains the same as it was after my first deployment in 2006: Coming home is the hardest part. How do you explain combat to…
In America, the coup of Sept. 11, 1973, “galvanized public opinion in a way that no other activity, no other coup, no other military dictatorship in Latin America did,” says Joe Eldridge, a longtime human rights advocate who was in…
The Austin-American Statesman is offering the paper for $1 for the first year. They do this kind of offer every few years. This is not a new offer and it will be repeated again if you kick yourself for missing…
What I think is helpful is not to conflate these two things or not to suggest they are the same, but to put them in conversation with one another so that we can learn about them, so that I can…
“Carol of the Bells” returns to Carnegie Hall 100 years after its North American premiere on this stage, when New York audiences first experienced Ukraine’s unique choral tradition thanks to a historic tour by The Ukrainian Republic Capella. “Carol of…
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they…
The second day of July, 1776 will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. John Adams That the signing of the Declaration of independence is celebrated on 4 July is one of American history’s more singular mistakes.…