Teaching Zinn: Part I
This post and a planned Part II are mostly based on a draft I wrote in March of 2013. That’s nearly ten years ago – how time does fly! I’ve mentioned before that I have a lot of old drafts … Continue reading →
Category Archives: History
Slavery and reparations
This video of Don Lemon being confronted – by a British royalty spokesperson named Hilary Fordwich – with some salient facts about the history of slavery, has been making the rounds. In case you haven’t seen it yet, here it … Continue reading →
Telling Big Lies: more Senate probes of Trump
It’s often educational to visit the looking-glass world of the leftist press. For example, from Salon, we have this article entitled, “‘Trump turned DOJ into his personal law firm’: Senate probes prosecutor’s claim of Trump corruption”: The Senate Judiciary Committee … Continue reading →
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Commenter “Mac” expresses what I’ve been feeling too: I have a sense that politically, culturally, socially, things are *not* going to be ok. Things are *not* going to work out. The America that we knew is not going to survive. … Continue reading →
The 50th anniversary of the Munich Olympics massacre is today
Young people probably have no idea about that happened back then. But those of us who are older certainly remember. It was stunningly shocking at the time, and even worse because it occurred in Germany at what was supposed to … Continue reading →
Fascism, real and fake
“Fascism” and “fascist” are popular epithets that have come to mean anything people want them to mean, but they always mean “bad.” Lately Biden and his minions have taken to calling the half of America that doesn’t agree with them … Continue reading →
Those Nazi analogies
Yesterday there was a discussion in the comments about making any analogies to Nazism. Commenter “M J R” had this to say, for example: I would agree with Stone [that the FBI has become Biden’s Gestapo], except I would not … Continue reading →
And let’s not forget the Iran deal
The Biden administration certainly hasn’t forgotten [emphasis mine]: Admittedly, the [Iranian] regime has more than once pumped the brakes on nuclear diplomacy. This intransigence signaled that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, may not have ever wanted an … Continue reading →
They say they found some classified information in the papers they took from Mar-A-Lago…
Something like this raid would have to have been done with the utmost transparency and documentation, as well as objective observers, if it’s done at all. But none of that was present. Here’s today’s news: FBI agents who searched former … Continue reading →
A vanished world
The title of this post is taken from the title of a book of photographs by Roman Vishniac, of Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the 1930s. Here is the story of how the photos were taken: …[B]etween 1934 and … Continue reading →
Pete Seeger has a stamp
I was raised on The Weavers, the folk-singing singing group of which Seeger was an important member – that, plus Tom Lehrer, Flanders and Swann, Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Mikado” and “HMS Pinafore”, and every Broadway musical from the mid-1940s to … Continue reading →
The cancellation of Jefferson at Monticello…
…had actually already happened when I was there, around 2008. The docents were already droning on and on about slaves and Sally Hemmings, almost as though those were the main points of Jefferson’s life. This NY Post article describes what’s … Continue reading →